Workshop demo problem

[Jacob Delfos]

Hi Ante,

It sounds like you have not specified write permissions for Apache.
Which lines have you added to your apache httpd.conf file? You have to
make sure that "C:/ServerRoot/workshop/tmp/" has write permissions. Then
check whether files are written to it.

The reason it says "string is empty" when you go to mapserv.exe is that
you haven't told the program what to do. It won't throw the error since
it's not trying to write.

regards,

Jacob


-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Sent: 1/7/2005 9:04 PM
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Workshop demo problem

Hi there....we have installed mapserver 4.4.1 on Win2000, apache 1.3.33
and
php 4.3.7(as SAPI)...

The problem started when we wanted to install the workshop demo....

As suggested we changed the hiden vars in index.html so it looks like
this

<!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
      <input type="hidden" name="map"
value="C:/ServerRoot/workshop/itasca.map">
      <input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
      <input type="hidden" name="root" value="C:/ServerRoot/workshop">
      <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
value="C:/ServerRoot/workshop/tmp/">
      <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl"
value="/workshop/tmp/">

When clicking the initialize button the mapserv.exe crashes with message
"Memory could not be writen" .....in other case the itasca.map file
could
not be found....

Here are some other details if needed....

Our server root is in c:/ServerRoot/ ....apache is installed in default
dir.... /cgi-bin/ alias points to  c:/ServerRoot/cgi-bin/ where the
mapserver/bin/ directory is copied to....

If the browser is pointed to mapserver.exe the default message about
query
string being empty is displayed....

Any help would be much appricited...if you need any more info just let
me
know....