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

[Stephen Woodbridge]

AHh! I see a (the?) problem, you haven't declared a CLASS ... END block
to tell mapserver HOW to reder you file. Try:

LAYER
   ...
   CLASS
     COLOR 0 0 0
   END
END

-Steve

Joseph Norris wrote:

> Here is what I got from a shpdump:
>
> Shapefile Type: Polygon   # of Shapes: 58
>
> File Bounds: ( 5895561.577, -191512.795,0,0)
>          to  ( 8945856.680, 3225756.404,0,0)
>
>
> so I changed my extent to:
>
> EXTENT  5895561.577 -191512.795 8945856.680 3225756.404
>
>   IMAGETYPE PNG
>   SIZE 600 600
>   SHAPEPATH "data"
>   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
> I  still get nothing in my browser.
>
>
> #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 Ethan Alpert
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:09 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any
> light on what I am doing wrong?
>
> Also do a shpdump and get the bounds in the projection of the shapefile.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:08 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed
> any light on what I am doing wrong?
>
>
> Joseph,
>
> I'm not sure your extents are correct:
>
> EXTENTS xmin ymin xmax ymax
>
> it looks like you have xmin xmax ymin ymax. What to you get for an image
> when you use shp2img utility?
>
> -Steve
>
>
> Joseph Norris wrote:
>
>
>>I made a change - checked the permissions:
>>
>>Everything set to apache and with read/write/exec for apache
>>
>>This is the same as the
>>
>>http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/
>>htdocs
>>/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/tests/test.map&mode=map
>>
>>
>>
>>This new url - simplified
>>
>>http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/
>>htdocs
>>/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal.map&mode=map
>>
>>The two directory permission structures are the exact same.
>>
>>
>>
>>#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 Stephen Woodbridge
>>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:54 AM
>>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed
>
> any
>
>>light on what I am doing wrong?
>>
>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>