[mapserver-users] Eror in CGI Script

Tue Aug 11 12:35:26 PDT 2009

Rishikant Lal wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> I have my .Map file in C:\ms4w\apps\gmap\htdocs and it is called 
> hello.map and my template file is saved in C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs and is 
> hello.html.
> Hello.map looks like
> # This is our "Hello World" mapfile
>  NAME "Hello_World"
>  SIZE 400 300
>  IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
>  IMAGETYPE png
>  EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00
>  WEB
>  TEMPLATE "/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/hello.html"
>  IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/apps/gmap/data"
>  IMAGEURL "/ms4w/tmp"
>  END
>  LAYER
>  STATUS default
>  TYPE point
>  FEATURE
>  POINTS 0.0 0.0 END
>  TEXT "Hello World"
>  END # end feature
>  CLASS
>  STYLE
>  COLOR 255 0 0
>  END
>  LABEL
>  TYPE bitmap
>  END
>  END
>  END
>  END
>  
> And hello.html looks like
> <html>
>  <head><title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>
>  <body>
>  <form method=POST action="../cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>  <input type="submit" value="Click Me">
>  <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/hello.map">
>  <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
> value="map=/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/hello.map&mode=map">
>  </form>
>  <IMG SRC="tmp/abc.png" width=400 height=300 border=0>
>  </body>
>  </html>
>  
> Ther is some error in this script and I am not able to figure it out. 
> Kindly help me out.
> 

Hello,

Here are my comments:

- MS4W is configured for the following IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL settings:

   IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
   IMAGEURL  "/ms_tmp/"

- you say that your mapfile is in 'C:\ms4w\apps\gmap\htdocs' but your 
template points to a mapfile in '/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/hello.map' ?

- maybe keep your mapfile and its associated files (such as your 
template) in the same directory so you don't get confused

Hope that helps.

-jeff

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