Installation problem

[Russ Bradford]

Hi Dave,

Try looking in your httpd.conf file (in ../Apache/conf/ folder) for the
following section:

#
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to 
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:8080
Listen 8080

It may be possible that you are not 'listening' on 8080 and need to
change that part of the config file, or change the URL to address that
issue. If this does not help I am sorry, but my knowledge is too limited
to go any further.

Hope this helps.

Russ.

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Dave McCormick
Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 1:55 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Installation problem


Tried it and it still does not work.  Even told apache to listen to port
8080, no good.  Still recieving "is of type application/octet-stream".

Thanks

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:35:22 +1100, Russ Bradford
<Russ.Bradford at CSIRO.AU>
wrote:

>Sorry, just figured it out.
>
>http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe should get you started.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] 
>On Behalf Of Dave McCormick
>Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:41 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Installation problem
>
>
>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
>>>