need help to begin - very newbee {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

Try to change SHAPAPATH to absolute path (not document root relative),
e.g. /var/www/...

Bye
Zoltan

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Joseph Norris wrote:

> Thanks for the help David.
>
> I am not getting anything - the browser just says done and does not show
> anything.  Nothing in the error_log either.
>
>
> #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);
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fawcett [mailto:David.Fawcett at state.mn.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:14 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu; sirronj at pacbell.net
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] need help to begin - very newbee
>
> Joseph,
>
> What do you mean by 'dump of the map'?
>
> Is it an image of the map (as you would expect from mode=map)?
>
> Is it a dump of the text of the map file?
>
> Did you get any sort of error message?
>
> David.
>
> >>> Joseph Norris <sirronj at PACBELL.NET> 11/10/2004 11:11:39 AM >>>
> I have named the executable mapserv.cgi - and it works just fine on the
> demo
> model that I have obtained with mapserv.  I am doing something wrong
> with
> the mapfile I think.
>
>
> #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);
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu]On
>
> Behalf Of David Fawcett
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:02 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] need help to begin - very newbee
>
> Joseph,
>
> This may not be your entire problem, but you need to modify the URL.
> I
> believe that you have the wrong suffix on the name of the mapserv
> binary
> file.
>
> Use this if you are on Windows:
> http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/usr/local/apache/ht
>
>
> docs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map
>
>
> Or this if you are on 'nix:
> http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/ht
>
> docs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map
>
> David.
>
>
>
> David J. Fawcett
> MN Office of Environmental Assistance
>
> >>> Joseph Norris <sirronj at PACBELL.NET> 11/10/2004 10:45:52 AM >>>
> 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);
>