first time mapserver install, error on empty query

[Gregor Mosheh]

Tara Athan wrote:
> I have limited access to the webserver.

Good to know.



> Don't Options 2 and 3 depend on there being a file libgdal.so.1 
> somewhere?  I cannot find any such file.

If you sucessfuly did a make and make install as you describe, there 
should be a directory /home/alttwois/local/lib and inside it should be 
among other things libgdal.so

If not, then backtrack and tell us how your GDAL/OGR build went.

If so, then /home/alttwois/local/lib is the library path. Create a shell 
script and stick it into cgi-bin:
   #!/bin/sh
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/alttwois/local/lib"
   exec /path/to/cgi-bin/mapserv
That wrapper should do the trick, for both command line and CGI.

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