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

[Ed McNierney]

Ethan, Joesph and list -

I had the wrong URL (see Ethan's message below) because I copied it from the original message (see Joseph's original post):

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

Please be careful when reporting errors, and be sure to report the error message you actually receive!  Festina lente, as they say....

        - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: +1 978 251-4242   Fax: +1 978 251-1396


-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Alpert [mailto:ealpert at digitalglobe.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:35 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?



FYI you have the wrong URL

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

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed McNierney
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:31 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?


Wow!  Such a flurry of energy!

Take a deep breath.  Now, instead of trying to use that URL as the SRC field of an IMG tag, simply copy it into the address bar of your browser.  You will find that MapServer is attempting to give you a possibly informative text message:

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

MapServer will tell you that it is unable to read your MAP file, either because the path to it is wrong (it's looking for /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.ma
p) or because there is an access/permissions problem.

        - Ed

"All of nature talks to me.
 If I could just figure out what it's trying to say..."
   - Laurie Anderson

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: +1 978 251-4242   Fax: +1 978 251-1396