Hi: [mapserver-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near(:):(line 1)

Tue May 20 10:17:08 PDT 2008

Hi,

I copy-pasted your mapfile from this message (between MAP and END), stored it on my hard disk and had a try with MS4W with the following URL: 

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=c:/ms4w/apps/maps/test.map&mode=map

I received a yellowish box on browser with Hello World text on it.  Thus your mapfile and operating system is OK for this task.  There must be something very little teasing you at the moment, but I trust that you will do it. Are you totally sure that you do not have anything extra, like ':' in the first line of your mapfile, as the error message suggests?

-Jukka Rahkonen-

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Aihe: [mapserver-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near(:):(line 1)

Unfortunately the error insists.
I have tried every advice you gave me but stiil nothing.
All the modifications i did are:
1)Check the orientation of slashes and i actually tried every possible 
orientation.
2)Placed the MAP keyword in the first line of .map file.
3)Tried an older version of MapServer (although there is nothing 
different according to the site...).

Perhaps i should try it on linux?
Does it make any difference at all?

*test.map*

MAP
    NAME "TEST!!!"
    SIZE 400 300
    IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
    IMAGETYPE png
    EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00

    WEB
           TEMPLATE "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\test.html"
           IMAGEPATH "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp"
           IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
    END

    LAYER
           STATUS default
           TYPE point
           FEATURE
                   POINTS 0.0 0.0 END
                   TEXT "Hello World"
           END
           CLASS
                   STYLE
                       COLOR 255 0 0
                   END
                   LABEL
                       TYPE bitmap
                   END
           END
       END
END

*test.html

*<html>
<head><title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>

<body>

<form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
  <input type="submit" value="Click">
  <input type="hidden" name="MAP" value="C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\test.map">
  <input type="hidden" name="map_web" value="imagepath 
C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\ imageurl /tmp/">
</form>
<IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>

</body>
</html>
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