[mapserver-users] problems with running the demo

[Brent Pedersen]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Oz Nahum <nahumoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I've installed mapserver from source on debian lenny.
> My local host directory it like this that mapserevr is in
> localhost/mapserver/
>
> After compiling the source I copied all the executables files to
> /var/www/cgi-bin/
>
> in my httpd.conf i added the lines
>
> <IfModule mod_alias.c>
>
>     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
>
>     <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin/>
>         AllowOverride None
>         Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>
>     </Directory>
> </IfModule>
>
> but I still get 403 errors pressing any of the buttons in mapserver when it
> is already running.
>
> "Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server."
>
> What am I doing wrong ???
>
> Thanks, Oz
>
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hi,
not sure what you mean by pressing buttons when it's running, but when
you go to the url /cgi-bin/mapserv what do you see? you should see
soemthing about empty QUERY_STRING. if not, check your apache.conf,
debian usually comes with /cgi-bin/ already defined the apache conf.
also check to see that mapserv is executable.

-brent