Installation of Mapserver

[John Hulst]

Hi Wim,

Thank you for your reply.

it seems that the MSVCR70.DLL is missing from my PC.
I found out that this is a common problem.
This is supposed to be in MS visual studio and on some sites (is that legal?).

I will see how to solve this.

John


At 20:23 17/01/2005, Wim Blanken wrote:
>Hello John,
>
>Please try mapserv -v on the command line, windows will show you which dll
>it is missing.
>Then copy this dll to windows/system32
>
>Regards,
>
>Wim Blanken
>The Netherlands
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:john at HULST.NAME>John Hulst
>To: <mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 8:00 PM
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Installation of Mapserver
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have tried to install mapserver on my Windows PC.
>I have Apachy running on it and I used the description
>that I found in the release.
>I use :PROJ_LIB  and have updated the path to the DLL's.
>
>Then at point 9 it goes wrong:
>    9. Test MapServer by typing " http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" on you
>    browser.  It should return the following message:
>    "No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty."
>
>Instead of the "no query message" I get  the reply:
>
>
>
>"Internal Server Error
>
>
>
>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
>unable to complete your request.
>
>Please contact the server administrator, john at hulst.name and inform them
>of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may
>have caused the error.
>
>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
>
>----------
>Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) Server at 83.179.14.148 Port 80
>"
>
>Anybody seen something simular? Since I am a newby on Apachy as well as
>Mapserver I hope that you can help me.
>
>Thanks and regards,
>
>John Hulst
>-------------------------------------
>
>Installation Instructions:
>1. Unzip the package to a directory.  For example, "C:\MapServer".
>2. View the README-Binaries.txt from "C:\Mapserver" for information on support
>    compiled with this package.
>3. View README for credits and license information.
>4. View HISTORY.TXT for additional information on MapServer 4.4.1
>5. Copy mapserv.exe from "C:\MapServer\bin" to your web server's cgi-bin
>    directory. (In Microsoft's IIS, this is either in "C:\Inetpub\Scripts" or
>    "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin". In Apache v1.3.x, this is usually in
>    "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin".)
>6. Copy directory "Proj" to "C:\". (You should end up with a directory
>    "C:\Proj".)  Alternatively, leave the "proj" subdirectory where it is
> and add
>    a variable called PROJ_LIB to your system environment and enter the
> path to
>    your "proj\nad" subdirectory as the value (example: system variable:
> PROJ_LIB,
>    value: C:\MapServer\Proj\NAD).
>7. Copy the dynamic link libraries (the files with .dll extensions) to your
>    system directory--this is typically "C:\Windows\system" on Windows 98 or
>    "C:\Windows\system32" on Windows 2000 and XP.  Alternatively, you can
> leave
>    the dlls where they are and update your system PATH to include the path to
>    your "bin" directory (i.e. "C:\MapServer\bin").
>8. Restart your web server.
>9. Test MapServer by typing " http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" on you
>browser.  It should return the following message:
>"No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty."