[Mapserver-users] OT iis 5 drives me nuts

[niklas wörmann]

Hi!
Sorry for the off topic...
i have finally got mapserver installed on my win 2000 box.
everything seems to work fine if i use the local path for defining the map
file like;

http://192.168.0.133/cgi-bin/mapserv4.exe?map=c:/inetpub/wwwroot\ms_workshop
\example1.map&mode=map

but i cant for the life of me, get iis to return the map file when i access
it like
http://192.168.0.133/ms_workshop/example1.map
file not found, although i can see it fine (directory browsing is turned
on )

although http://192.168.0.133/ms_workshop/example1.txt will work fine (note
the different extension here)

somehow some security restricion hidden somewhere in the bowels of
microsofts software is stopping the server from
serving files with .map extensions.

anyone?

niklas wörmann
älvsjö
sweden