Mapserver input and mapfile

[Shoaib Burq]

May be you can privide your mapfile
regards
shoaib
On 12/21/05, Apeksha Bhambhani <beproject06 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  We are new to Mapserver .Working on a project with RedHat/
> As of now the mapserver installation seems perfect . However we are having
> problems running the demo. Apart from this we are pretty confused as to how
> exactly can we use Mapserver . Our motive is to display a map on the web n
> allow the users to edit the map .
> We were wondering as to what would the input to the mapserver be?
> Also taking the input as a shapefile , we have not been able to successfully
> display the layers.
> We tried this by downloading from a site a shapefile which includes
> (.shp,.shx,.dbf) files. We put these files in the data directory (
> /var/www/html/data) . We generated a map file and put it in /var/www/html.
> Having the shapefile how are we supposed to interpret the layer data ? We
> try to access the image through the browser. However we have been
> unsuccessful .
> Can somebody plz help us out .
>
> Thanking You ,
> Apeksha
>
>
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