ASP & ASPExec

[Jacob Blankenship]

Hi All, Does anyone have any experience with and/or
examples of getting MapServ to work with ASPX?

Regards,
Jacob

--- Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> Marta,
>
> I am copying the mapserver-users mailing list with
> this message as
> there may be others who can help you.
>
> Without more details, it's hard to guess where it
> may be failing.
>
> 1. Get everything working with straight CGI, then
> run exactly the same
> query string thru ASPExec.
>
> 2. Try it at the command line rather than thru
> ASPExec. This may show
> error messages.
>
> 3. Try a different version of mapserv.exe - it seem
> to remember some
> discussion on the list suggesting that maybe the
> QUERY_STRING= syntax
> was broken breifly in a 4.x version.
>
> 4. I have attached a simple .asp file which may
> server as an example.
>
> 5. There is also an asp "forwarding" mechanism
> described at:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/htm/xmobjxmldomserverxmlhttp_using_directly.asp
> and
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/wms-server-howto.html#onlineresourceurl
> that might be useful, and easier, depending on what
> you are trying to do.
>
> Regards,
> Rich
> --
> Richard Greenwood
> richard.greenwood at gmail.com
> www.greenwoodmap.com
>
>
> Marta Vidal Modenesi wrote:
>
> > Hi Rich !
> >
> > I´m writing you about an email that you sent to
> the mapserver-users list
> > some years ago (2001).
> >
> > I´m trying to work with Mapserver CGI , and
> started searching the
> > mapserver´s users lists but there´s very few
> information about the topic
> > I´m interested in.
> >
> > I´m trying to use the ASPEXEC but It doesn´t work.
>  I think I don´t know
> > how to call the CGI mapserver in my ASP code. I
> wonder if you could give
> > me a hint. I have followed the example codes that
> comes with ASPEXEC
> > but won´t work either.
> >
> > Thanks anyway, Marta Modenesi.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Greenwood
> [mailto:Rich at GreenwoodMap.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:30 PM
> > To: Ed McNierney
> > Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] ASP Implementation
> Notes (re-post from
> > 10/23)
> >
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing you ASP knowledge and for
> providing such a detailed
> > example. Another way to do pretty much the same
> thing is:
> >      mapserver.exe QUERY_STRING=xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > This allows you to run mapserver from the command
> prompt without calling
> > it
> > from a httpd, although I don't know if it is
> considered a supported
> > interface (Steve?). Basic ASP doesn't let you
> execute external commands
> > but
> > www.serverobjects.com has a free tool that
> provides that ability.
> >
> > Another very general comment on using ASP and
> MapServer together -
> > there's
> > nothing wrong with mixing ASP and CGI pages on the
> same site. e.g. I
> > have a
> > series of reports that are generated by user
> queries against a SQL
> > Server
> > database and displayed in ASP pages. The user can
> click a line in the
> > report which calls MapServer with appropriate
> parameters to map the
> > record
> > the user clicked.
> >
> > Rich
> >
>





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