please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

When I hit the URL you listed it says:

msLoadMap(): Unable to access file.
(/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map)

So I would check your path and your permissions

-Steve

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Joseph,
>
> You DATAPATH is relative to your mapfile unless you specify it as an
> absolute path. I would start there. Also if you can load Netscape then
> you can right click the broken image icon and select view image and it
> will display any error messages that mapserver coughs up.
>
> -Steve
>
> Joseph Norris wrote:
>
>> Group,
>>
>> Here I am again:
>>
>> I have this link:
>>
>> http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/htdocs
>>
>> /mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map
>>
>> and this map file
>>
>> MAP
>>   NAME TESTMAP
>>   STATUS ON
>>   EXTENT  -1375383.89811082 -7278971.22201064 16216802.1381132
>> 10313214.8142134
>>   IMAGETYPE PNG
>>   SIZE 600 600
>>   SHAPEPATH "data"
>>   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>>
>>   WEB
>>     METADATA
>>       "key1" "value1"
>>       "key2" "value2"
>>       "key3" "value3"
>>       "key4" "value4"
>>     END
>>   END
>>
>>   LAYER
>>     NAME "calif_co_st"
>>     TYPE POLYGON
>>     DATA "calif_co_st"
>>     STATUS DEFAULT
>>   END
>>
>> END
>>
>> I still getting nothing but this on my map ( right-click properties ):
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> And yet - when I move the tests directory into my http tree like this
>>
>> http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/htdocs
>>
>> /mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/tests/test.map&mode=map
>>
>> I get what the mapserver tests are supposed to give - is there something
>> about my shape files I should know about?
>>
>> Please - anything at all would be helpful.
>>
>