Installation problem

[Dave McCormick]

I have the complete tree /gis/cgi-bin/mapserv chown'ed by apache and mapserv
is chmond +x.  Yes, I have another script "test.cgi" in the same dir and it
works fine.

A stupid question, if "mapserv" is a cgi, why does it show as an
executable???  I normally program "pic chips".

Thank you.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:51:44 -0800, Brent Pedersen
<bpederse at NATURE.BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:

>hi,
>i would check that the mapserv is chown'ed by  you:apache    and
>chmod +x it
>
>also check your apache conf file to make sure that ScriptAlias points
>to the cgi-bin.
>
>your result seems like apache isn't recognizing mapserv as a cgi
>script. do you have any other scripts in that directory? do they work?
>
>-brent
>
>On Mar 13, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote:
>
>> "mapserv" is the CGI, therefore the PHP configuration has no
>> bearing on it.
>>
>> Look in apache's "error_log" to see if anything shows up when you
>> make a
>> request to the CGI?
>>
>> Normally, you should see the same message in your browser that you
>> would see
>> from the command line (i.e. "QUERY_STRING not set ...").
>>
>> Since you don't presumably some error occurs, and hopefully it
>> shows up in
>> apache's error log file.
>>
>> J.F.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-
>> USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Dave McCormick
>> Sent: March 13, 2006 11:14 AM
>> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Installation problem
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Mandrake 10, Apache 2.2 , PHP 4.4.2.  Following the
>> instructions
>> from here http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/compiling_on_unix and here
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/verboselinuxinstall.
>>
>> When I get to the end and test "./mapserv" the correct message
>> returns.
>>
>> When I test on a browser "http://yourhostname.com/cgi-bin/mapserv"
>> I recieve
>> "download program as file?".
>>
>> I imagine the proplem is in my php setup, but after four times of
>> setting
>> things up (reinstall apache, php, etc, I still have the same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong.
>>
>> Thanh you,
>> Dave
>>