[mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS

[Matthew Pettis]

Thanks Jukka, Robert,

Jukka was right... it was saved as mapserv.exe, but when I opened it with an
editor, it was the appropriate XML...  I just assumed that it was
downloading the binary itself and didn't bother downloading it.

Thanks!

Matt

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
wrote:

> 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-
>
> > -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
> > Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Puolesta
> > 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<http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:%5Cms4w%5CApache%5Chtdocs>
> > \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<http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:%5Cms4w%5CApache%5Chtdocs>
> > \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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>



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