I just read your last post why is STATUS set to OFF? STATUS should be either DEFAULT (displayed always) or ON (displayed when layer is set through CGI URL i.e. ..&layers=testign) -e LAYER NAME testign TYPE RASTER STATUS OFF OFFSITE 252 252 252 CLASS NAME 'TEST IGN' KEYIMAGE graphics/drgs_keyimage.png END DATA "ign25/d516.tif" END