mapserver install - save and download window for mapserver.exe

[Lester Caine]

william paul wrote:

> Hi and Thank you Zoltan, but:
> I use Windows XP professional, FAT32 as partition and Apache 2,
> mapserver_pg_440.
> I used Workshop Demo, Itasca Demo and I also created my mapserver.
> In HTML file I tried with:
> c:\.....\cgi-bin\mapserver.exe - absolute path
> \cgi-bin\mapserver.exe, relative path - both with backslahes or slahes.
> When I use absolute path (e.g. c:\...\cgi-bin|mapserver.exe I get the
> save and download window
> When I use relative path \cgi-bin\mapserver.exe I get "The page cannot
> be displayed"
> The lines in apache for ScriptAlias are:
> #
> # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
> # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
> # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
> # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
> client.
> # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
> # Alias.
> #
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/apache/Apache2/cgi-bin/"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:\apache\Apache2\cgi-bin\"
> #
> # "C:/apache/Apache2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your
> ScriptAliased
> # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
> #
> <Directory "C:/apache/Apache2/cgi-bin">
<Directory "C:\apache\Apache2\cgi-bin">
>     AllowOverride none
>     Options none
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I've seen the same error at other users, and some asnwers were about
> read and execute permissions for the cgi-bin folder. In my case with
> Fat32 partition, I can't modify read and execute permissions. Do I have
> to convert to NTFS? Can Mapserver be used on FAT32?

Have you edited index.html in workshop so that THAT works. It does give
a few messages while things are not right, and once you get things set
it works fine. Your temporary directories have to be visible to apache
to display the results.
http://home.lsces.co.uk/Maps/itasca/index.html is working W2k/Apache2/PHP5

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