need help to begin - very newbee

[Joseph Norris]

Hello to all,

I have successfully installed mapserver and I have the following files:

B_Major_Cities_2.dbf
B_Major_Cities_2.prj
B_Major_Cities_2.shp
B_Major_Cities_2.shx
Country_Boundaries_3.dbf
Country_Boundaries_3.prj
Country_Boundaries_3.shp
Country_Boundaries_3.shx
Rivers_2.dbf
Rivers_2.prj
Rivers_2.shp
Rivers_2.shx
Streets_and_Railroads_1.dbf
Streets_and_Railroads_1.prj
Streets_and_Railroads_1.shp
Streets_and_Railroads_1.shx
Water_Bodies_2.dbf
Water_Bodies_2.prj
Water_Bodies_2.shp
Water_Bodies_2.shx


I have the following map file:

MAP
  IMAGETYPE GIF
  EXTENT 201621.496941 -294488.285333 1425518.020722 498254.511514
  SIZE 500 400
  SHAPEPATH "data"
  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255


  # Start of LAYER DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------
  LAYER # California polygon layer begins here
    NAME "Country_Boundaries_3"
    DATA "Country_Boundaries_3"
    STATUS DEFAULT
    TYPE POLYGON

  END # States polygon layer ends here
  # End of LAYER DEFINITIONS -------------------------------
END # end of map file/object

I then do the following:

http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv.cgi?map=/usr/local/apache/ht
docs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map

in my browser - but I get now dump of the map.  I have been over the
tutorial ( - please - if anyone has a more simplified tutorial - let me
know ) but I do not see where I am in error.

Thanks to all

#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map chr
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);