[Mapserver-users] (newbie): Win32 Apache error when calling Mapserv.exe

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

In addition to what Tyler already said, run "mapserv.exe -v" from the command 
prompt and see if it returns something like:

MapServer version 4.0.1 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF 
SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL 
INPUT=SHAPEFILE

If not, something is wrong with your executable.  But then again it could just 
be permission problems.  Or perhaps you've locked down your CGI-BIN directory 
so that only scripts with certain extensions would run?

By the way, you might want to upgrade your apache to version 1.3.29 or 
something.  I think there were some security issues on 1.3.27--not good if 
your computer is connected to the rest of this wacky world.

-Perry N.


On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:18 am, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Is Apache properly configure to execute files in
> c:/phpdev/www/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe ?
> It looks like it is not trying to execute the file, but trying to display
> the contents.  You may want to first try putting mapserv.exe in c:\program
> files\apache group\apache\cgi-bin and try it there instead, since the
> permissions and execution flags are already set in httpd.conf.  Hmm...but
> you must have change the Alias.  Show us the parts of httpd.conf that you
> changed.
>
> mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 01/21/2004 09:48:20 PM:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm just getting started with Mapserver (well, not even that!) - I have
> > Apache 1.3.27 running on Windows2000 and am trying to run the Mapserver
>
> 4.0
>
> > demo application.
> >
> > I try to test the MapServer application according to the tutorial
> > instructions, with the URL
> > http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?
> > And Apache returns the following error 500:
> > [error] Unrecognized character \x90 at c:/phpdev/www/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
> > line 1.
> >
> > Can anyone give a suggestion what might be wrong?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Yuri Banens
> >
> >
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Pericles S. Nacionales
Dept. of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota

e-mail: nacional at cbs.umn.edu
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