mapserv.exe - file not found error under Windows 2003

Mike Dunham-Wilkie mike at BARRODALE.COM
Wed Aug 11 14:23:10 EDT 2004


Thanks Richard - this was it.

Cheers,... Mike

At 05:44 PM 8/10/04, Richard Greenwood wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:03:38 -0500, Mike Dunham-Wilkie
><mike at barrodale.com> wrote:
> > We are trying to run Mapserver under Windows 2003 / IIS.  I have it running
> > successfully in a Windows XP environment, but when I follow the same
> > installation process / IIS setup on the Windows 2003 box and point to
> >
> > http://website/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?....
> >
> > I get a 404 - Page not found error, ... <snip>
> >
>
>
>Windows 2003 has a new top-level permissions "branch" in IIS Manager
>called "Web Service Extensions" which caused me endless grief. Once
>you know where to look it's pretty straight forward. There is some
>discussion at:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/ca_configcgi.asp
>
>And the 404 error is totally misleading!
>
>HTH
>--
>Richard Greenwood
>richard.greenwood at gmail.com
>www.greenwoodmap.com



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