Map not rendering

[James Net]

Problem Solved. It was that darn STATUS: DEFAULT.

Thanks again


>From: "Ed McNierney" <ed at topozone.com>
>To: "James Net" 
><james_marsnett at HOTMAIL.COM>,<MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map not rendering
>Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:21:44 -0500
>
>James -
>
>Set your layer to STATUS DEFAULT, instead of STATUS ON.  The WMS request
>forces that layer to be displayed, since you must list it explicitly.
>STATUS ON does not mean what you and 98,274 other new users (myself
>included) thinks it means!
>
>	- Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
>North Chelmsford, MA  01863
>Phone: +1 (978) 251-4242
>Fax: +1 (978) 251-1396
>ed at topozone.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>Behalf Of James Net
>Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:49 PM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map not rendering
>
>Hi all,
>
>While I hope this is not a silly question, I fear it is, or at least
>would have a simple solution.
>
>I am trying to render a map with ms.
>
>If I do the following, the map renders and all is fine:
>
>http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/workshop/start3.map&SE
>RVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=mymap
>
>However, if I try the following, nothing is rendered - just a solid
>white
>square:
>
>http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/workshop/start3.map&mo
>de=map
>
>I'm just using a simple map file:
>
>MAP
>   NAME           TEST
>   IMAGETYPE      jpeg
>   EXTENT         140 -40 150 -33
>   SIZE           600 600
>   #SHAPEPATH      "/home/data/map/Landsat Mosaic TM2000/GDA94LL/"
>   DEBUG ON
>
>#  TEMPLATEPATTERN 'start'
>
>WEB
>     TEMPLATE  'start_template.html'
>     IMAGEPATH '/var/www/html/tmp/'
>     IMAGEURL  '/tmp/'
>END
>
>PROJECTION
>   "init=epsg:4283"   #required
>END
>
>LAYER
>    NAME "mymap"
>    DATA "mymap_mosaic_murray_geov2_WGS84.tif"
>    TYPE RASTER
>    STATUS ON
>END
>
>END
>
>
>Is this odd? Shouldn't both URL's work?
>
>I've also tried shp2img and the map correctly renders.
>
>So why doesn't this work?:
>
>http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/workshop/start3.map&mo
>de=map
>
>I'm using map server on redhat.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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