[Mapserver-users] Problems during first try at Mapserver installation

[Daniel Morissette]

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About your question, if I understood it correctly, the answer would be 
yes, if you are planning to install your MapServer applications on 
another server somewhere later on then you'll have to install all the 
DLLs on that server.

However clients (people browsing the web and visiting your website) only 
need a web browser and don't need to install MapServer or any DLL on 
their machine.

Daniel



Stephen Wallace wrote:
> Daniel
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I have worked on the setup this morning and found more that more than
> one correction was needed.
> 
> You were right I had tried to access the file incorrectly.
> Plus the Internet Information Server was not installed correctly. I
> re-installed today.
> 
> I am now onto the Mapserver 4.0 Tutorial.
> 
> I have one other question at present. During the installation of
> MapServer I placed a set of dll's in the C:\windows directory.
> These allow the operation of the software on my computer. When I upload
> my Mapserver directory to the web how does the software access the
> dll's. The same question for the Proj file which I installed as c:\Proj.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Stephen Wallace
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
> [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel
> Morissette
> Sent: October 28, 2003 9:19 AM
> To: gis at gisrs.com
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Problems during first try at Mapserver
> installation
> 
> 
> Stephen Wallace wrote:
> 
>>To test the installation to make sure that your MapServer CGI program
>>is
>>working. I entered the following URL on a web browser
>>C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?
> 
> 
> The above would try to access the file locally on disk but that's not
> what you want.  You want to go through the web server (i.e. via http).
>   Try:
> 
>    http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
> 
> Daniel
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>   Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
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