[Mapserver-users] simple mapserver configuration

[Eric Sokolowsky]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Norman Vine wrote:

> Pericles Nacionales writes:
> > 
> > By the way, does your app generate a
> > map with a standard MapServer CGI url, ie:
> > http://svsdev.gsfc.nasa.gov/esok/cgi-bin/map?map=/path/to/your/mapfile.map&layer=EARTH_PNG&mode=map
> 
> AhAh  I think this is it !
> 
> Eric try 
> 
>  "wms_onlineresource" "http://svsdev.gsfc.nasa.gov/esok/cgi-bin/map?"
> 
> assuming your mapfile is "mywms.map" and is in the cgi-bin directory try
> 
> "wms_onlineresource" "http://svsdev.gsfc.nasa.gov/esok/cgi-bin/map?map=mywms.map"
> 
> your mapfile can be anywhere you just need the path as Pericles says

Yes, I am sure that I was getting the right map file, because a 
getcapabilities request was returning an xml document with all of the 
right layers.  I didn't mention it in the original email (I should have
though) but my "map" is a wrapper around mapserv (so I don't need to 
specify a map file in the URL): 

  #!/bin/sh
  # Wrapper for mapserv binary.

  export ROOT=/home/esok
  export MS_MAPFILE=${ROOT}/mapserver/etc/wms.map
  ${ROOT}/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv $*

I really do appreciate your suggestions.  Do you have any more?

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