problem with running the MS Demo

[Jeff McKenna]

The plans are to add a MS Demo package for MS4W - which will avoid these 
configuration issues for MS4W users in the future.

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383

jeff



Gur Hanan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a new user, and I am trying to run the demo without any success.
> I run the MS over Win32 platform.
> I follow the instruction of installing MS for windows, and now I am 
> trying to run the demo.
>  
> The MS install in: C:\
> The Demo install in:C:\MS4W\workshop
> The cgi-bin is in:C:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin   and there ther are some 
> execute file: mapserv.exe, mapserv_46.exe, mapserv_48.exe
>  
> I do the following changes in the index.html (marked in red):
>  
> ...
> 
> <!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION -->
> 
> <form name="demo" method="GET" action="/Apache/cgi-bin/mapserv_48" 
> onSubmit="submit_form()">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
> 
>  
> 
> <!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/workshop/itasca.map">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="program" value="/Apache/cgi-bin/mapserv_48">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="root" value="/workshop">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="/tmp/">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl" value="/tmp/">
> 
> .....
> 
>  
> 
> Now I opened the index.html, and When I pressed the "Initialize" button, 
> the address in the URL is "C:\Apache\cgi-bin\mapserv_48",
> 
> and i got the message: "The page cannot be displayed".
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> 


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Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca