I just need to get started! Please, help me with some tips!

[Steve Pashby]

Steven De Vriendt <gisaalter <at> GMAIL.COM> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> Hi,
>  
> If you're a beginner I can advise you this book by Tyler Mitchell
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008651/qid=1145100799/sr=1-
3/ref=sr_1_3/104-2997351-0606345?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
> 
> It covers a lot of the basics to MapServer, like you I'm quite new to 
MapServer etc...but I've learned quite a lot from this book. 
>  
> Good luck ! 
> 
> On 4/15/06, Catalin G. <catalin_gn <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I really need to learn how to implement mapserver technology on a site, 
but I could use some tips for the begining. I installed ms4w on my computer so 
now I have mapserver installed and chamelon too. The problem is when I tried 
to add the demo files in my mapserver directory structure. 
> I added the files from DEMO here: E:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/itasca. I launched 
in my browser the next link: 
> http://localhost/itasca/demo_init.html. Now I should update the file 
demo.map and demo_init.html in order to make this to work. Here is the 
problem, cause I don't think I do it corectly. <form method=GET action="/cgi-
bin/mapserv">
> <input type="hidden" name="map" 
value="/ms4w/apache/htdocs/itasca/demo.map">What is the correct URL? And a 
second problem. Can you guide to some basics of mapserver? I look on the site, 
but I didn't found some step to stept explanations. 
> Thanks a lot!  
> 
> Catalin G.
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Hi Catalin, 

I found the book "Beginning MapServer, Open Source GIS Development" by BILL 
KROPLA extremely useful and has helped me a lot ! It takes you through the 
very basics of MapServer and explains what all the code is and what it does.

Also, in your code <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"> try adding .exe 
to the end of mapserv (ie, <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">) as 
i had similar problems when i started out, and all it took was to add 
the ".exe".

Cheers, 
Steve