Help with displaying a single RASTER image

[Bob Bruce]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:25:52 +0200, Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at UVA.NL> wrote:

Thank you very much Jan. This worked. I don't know why I had put STATUS ON
in my map file but that was what was causing the problem.

    Bob

>Bob Bruce wrote:
>
>> I am reviewing the tutorial and re-learning the MapServer by looking over
>> work that I had done previously on another computer and converting examples
>> that I had done with my own data (and that previously worked) to the new
>> paths on this computer. Now I am finding that I cannot get the server to
>> display a single GeoTIFF image under some vector data. I can see the vector
>> data but the raster image won't draw for some reason. I hope that someone
>> out there has some suggestion as to why the raster isn't appearing. I have
>> checked my path to the raster data and it is correct. I have tried settings
>> with processing the COLOR_MATCH_THRESHOLD and it didn't work. I even tried
>> turning off INTERLACE in the map image and it didn't work.
>>
>> The strange thing is that when I jump ahead to an example that I had done
>> with image tiles, this works and displays the raster tiles. But I can't seem
>> to get it to work with a single image. I also can't get the raster in the
>> standard tutorial35 to display.
>>
>> Does anyone out there have an answer to my problem?
>>
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>Why did you comment out "STATUS DEFAULT" in the raster layer and
>replaced it by "STATUS  ON"? This way, the layer will not be displayed,
>unless you specifically mention it in the url.
>
>Jan