maplab question

[Joseph Norris]

Ok - I have followed the example of the tests.map and made my map file as
simple as possible - when I display my map I still get nothing but when I do
a right-click and then properties I get the following:

The image
"http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/htdoc
s/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map" cannot be
displayed, because it contains errors.

How would I find out what the errors are?

Thanks.

#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 Umberto Nicoletti
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:04 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] maplab question

Quoting Joseph Norris <sirronj at PACBELL.NET>:

> Hello - I don't know if this off the subject - but here are two questions
> that I would put to one and all:
>
> First of all on maplab-2.2   I am getting the following when I try to
browse
> maps:
>
> Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
> '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/php_dbase.dll' -
> /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/php_dbase.dll:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in
>
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maplab-2.2/htdocs/c
> ommon/phpwms/dbf.php on line 151
>

Strange that on linux you try to load dll... shared libraries on linux have
.so
extension.

> It has occurred to me that this might be why I am having my other
mapserver
> problems - not sure
>
>
> Second:
>
> Can anyone give me the most simple of all mapfiles so that I might begin
> with this and work my way up to more complex applications.
>
> I am having no success at all with getting any of my maps to display.  I
> have installed the demo and it works very well but any of my own maps (
that
> I have obtained from ESRI - so they should work )   are not working at
all.
>
> I implore all - get me started so I can go forward into the wonderful
world
> of open source GIS.
>

Look at the workshop example (downloadable from mapserver web).
In the mapserver source tarball there is a test directory with a rather
simple
map file.

HTH,
Umberto


>
> #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);
>