Trouble getting started - please help

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:23:02 -0800, Eric Brown <ericbrown at netxn.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone,
>
> We have recently attempted to install MapServer on a new Windows 2003 (Wed
> Edition).  However, we are having a bit of a problem (or two).
>
> 1st: While running the webserv.exe program from a command prompt will
> provide the correct response - both with the -v option and without, running
> it as a CGI does not respond with the appropriate response.  We don't
> receive "No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty." as
> indicated in the documentation.  Instead we just receive a blank web page.

First, check that images are getting cretaed by mapserver in your tmp
directory. If not, check that CGI executabels are enabled at both the
virtual directory level and the "web service extensions" level.

If you are using ms domain authentication or active directory, there
are a couple ms articles that may help:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/ca_enabledynamiccontent.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/ca_configcgi.asp

Also, try accessing your page with Mozilla instead of IE. IE will mask
some error messages from the server that get displayed by Mozilla.


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Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com