[mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

I believe everything is OK. Try saving the file mapserv.exe on your disk and open it with text editor.  It is just that WMS standard gives such a MIME type for GetCapabilities response that it is not often recognised as XML.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

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> Matthew Pettis
> Lähetetty: 4. kesäkuuta 2008 15:56
> Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Aihe: [mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to test ms4w as a WMS for use with OpenLayers.  
> Went through the tutorial at:
> 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server/#setup-a-ma
> pfile-for-your-wms
> 
> I created a simple mapfile according to the specs (I think).  
> It is after the '===========' delimiter.  I called it with 
> the following
> url:
> 
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs
> \tmp\map.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
> 
> and it asked me to download the mapserv.exe application.  Not 
> what i expect.  I'm pretty sure everything else is in order, 
> because when I
> call:
> 
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs
> \tmp\map.map&mode=map
> 
> I get the expected map in my browser.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong or how I am screwing up the incantation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> ===========
> MAP
> 
>     ################
>     # Map attributes
>     ################
>   IMAGETYPE   PNG
>   EXTENT      184056.505 4809728.25 767381.245 5478975.75
>   SIZE        660 495
>   IMAGECOLOR  255 255 255
>   FONTSET     "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/fonts/fonts.list"
> 
>   PROJECTION
>     "init=epsg:26915"
>   END
> 
>     ####################
>     # Web settings
>     ####################
>   WEB
>     IMAGEPATH   "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tmp/"
>     IMAGEURL    "/tmp/"
>     METADATA
>         "wms_title"           "WMS Demo Server"
>         "wms_onlineresource"  "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?"
>     END
>   END
> 
>     ####################
>     # State
>     # Background shows through missing precincts to show 
> where no votes will be coming from
>     ####################
>   LAYER
>     NAME              "state"
>     METADATA
>         "wms_title"           "state"
>     END
>     CONNECTIONTYPE    postgis
>     CONNECTION        "user=postgres dbname=gisvote password=postgres"
>     DATA              "the_geom from shp_state"
>     STATUS            default
>     TYPE              polygon
> 
>     CLASS
>       NAME            "state"
>       COLOR           200 200 200
>     END
> 
>   END # Layer state
> 
> END
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