[mapserver-users] Eror in CGI Script

Tue Aug 11 15:46:22 EDT 2009

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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.
>>

Also, since you are using MS4W you might want to download and install 
the "MapServer Itasca Demo Application" addon package for MS4W, to see a 
working MapServer CGI application in action.

-jeff

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