[mapserver-users] install issues

[Chris h]

Greets:

Installing and testing mapserver with postgres intregration and I get the 
following errors when accessing the system with either one of the following 
two urls:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=world.map&request=getcapabilities&service=wms
or
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=world.map&mode=browse&layers=all&mode=map 

error# msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (world.map)

The particulars are as follows:

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following these instructions from

http://quovadis.dk/index.cgi/i_can_has_gis:2007-10-20:geo,linux,server,ubuntu

mapserver was build with the following variables:

#MapServer is now configured for

 -------------- Compiler Info -------------
  C compiler:                gcc -O2 -fPIC -Wall
  C++ compiler:              g++ -O2 -fPIC -Wall
  Debug:                      -DNEED_NONBLOCKING_STDERR
  Generic NINT:
  Threading support:         -DUSE_THREAD

 -------------- Renderer Settings ---------
  zlib support:              -DUSE_ZLIB
  png support:
  jpeg support:
  iconv support:             -DUSE_ICONV
  AGG support:               -DUSE_AGG
  AGG Freetype support:      -laggfontfreetype
  Ming(flash) support:
  PDFLib support:

 -------------- Data Format Drivers -------
  native tiff support:       -DUSE_TIFF
  PostGIS support:           -DUSE_POSTGIS
  Proj.4 support:            -DUSE_PROJ
  EPPL7 support:
  ArcSDE support:
  OGR support:               -DUSE_OGR
  GDAL support:              -DUSE_GDAL
  GEOS support:              -DUSE_GEOS
  Oracle Spatial support:
  FastCGI support:

 -------------- OGC Services --------------
  WMS Server:                -DUSE_WMS_SVR
  WMS Client:                -DUSE_WMS_LYR
  WFS Server:                -DUSE_WFS_SVR
  WFS Client:                -DUSE_WMS_LYR
  WCS Server:                -DUSE_WCS_SVR
  SOS Server:

 -------------- MapScript -----------------
  PHP MapScript:             no

Tested on localhost and it responds fine

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv

output: No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty.

Intgrating postgres/post-gis support I followed these instructions

http://www.duif.net/postgis/

and installed the world.shp file. Tested it with qgis and it works fine
given the necessary credentials: dbase name, user, password 

Using postgres 8.2 and postgresql.conf connection string set to

listen_address = "*"

pg_hba.conf is 
--------------------------------
# Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
local   all         postgres                          ident sameuser

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all         all                               ident sameuser
-------------------------------

The sample mapfile reads

-------------------------------
map
  size 500  250
  imagetype png
  imagecolor 0 0 255
  extent -180 -90 180 90

  projection
    "init=epsg:4326"
  end

  debug on

  web
    imagepath "/tmp/"
    imageurl "/tmp/"
    TEMPLATE "empty.html"
    metadata
      wms_title "WORLD"
      wms_srs "EPSG:4326"
    end
  end

  outputformat
    name "png256"
    driver "GD/PNG"
    imagemode "pc256"
    extension "png"
  end
  outputformat
    name "png"
    driver "GD/PNG"
    imagemode "rgba"
    extension "png"
    mimetype "image/png"
    imagemode RGBA
  end
  outputformat
    name "jpg"
    driver "GD/JPEG"
    extension "jpg"
    formatoption "QUALITY=85"
  end

  layer
    name 'world'
    metadata
      "wms_title"                     "postgis world"
      "wms_srs"                       "epsg:4326"
    end
    status default
    template "dummy"
    connectiontype postgis
    connection "host=localhost dbname=**** password=**** user=****"
    data 'the_geom from mygisdb using unique gid using srid=4326'
    type polygon
    class
      color 255 0 0
      outlinecolor 192 192 192
    end
  end

end	
------------------------eof----------------


Now when I access the system by means of the following URL's I get the 
respective errors:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=world.map&request=getcapabilities&service=wms
or
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=world.map&mode=browse&layers=all&mode=map 

msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (world.map)

Im not sure but I think this is a postgres permission issue or something along 
those line. 

Any ideas? 

Best regards and thanks for any insights. 


-- 
/ch