[Mapserver-users] getting started

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Andrew,

Greetings!  The message tells you that you actually compiled MapServer
properly but you haven't fed it anything yet.  To get yourself started,
download the MapServer Demo at
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dist/itasca3.5.tar.gz

Untar it to your web server's document root directory and edit the
demo_init.html to change the "map" and the :map_web..." hidden variable
values to the correct paths in your server.  You also need to check that
the "program" variable has the path to your mapserv CGI program.
Finally, make sure this line: 
<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"> 
correctly points to your mapserver CGI program.

You run the demo by opening the demo_init.html page on your browser:
http://<your.web.server>/itasca/demo_init.html

I hope that works for you.  You're almost there...

-Perry



On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 23:28, Andrew Koper wrote:
> I want to use mapserver in my cgi-bin at my ISP.  I am having trouble.
>  
> I downloaded mapserver-4.0b.tar.gz and unpacked it on my windows PC. 
> I want to use the *NIX binary.  Trying to follow the documentation, I
> FTP'ed mapserv.c and mapserv.h to the cgi-bin on my server (in ASCII
> mode, permissions are 755).
>  
> I tried to run it from the browser and the shell, and didn't get "No
> query information to decode...".
>  
> I'm guessing I'm trying to run part of the "un-make'd" server, but it
> is not clear where to get the *NIX precompiled binary
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> -Andrew Koper
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Pericles S. Nacionales <nacional at cbs.umn.edu>
University of Minnesota