[mapserver-users] unable to access the map file

[Jeff McKenna]

Suman Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just started using mapserver. It was running well till last week. 
> The Itasca application was also running. But all of a sudden the 
> application is not working. Although the maps are being created in the 
> temp folder but it is not being displayed in the browser. I tried with 
> typing
> 
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapserverdemo\workshop\itasca.map&mode=map 
> <http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapserverdemo\workshop\itasca.map&mode=map>
> 
>  
> 
> But it is displaying the error message
> 
>  
> 
> msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. 
> (C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\mapserverdemo\workshop\itasca.map).
> 
>  
> 
> I tried by changing the backslash to forward slash in the path but I am 
> still getting the same error message.
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t know what is going wrong.
> 
> Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. I require to solve 
> it urgently.
> 

Since you are using MS4W you can download the "MapServer Itasca Demo 
Application" add-on application from the MS4W downloads page [1], 
extract it at your drive root, restart Apache, and look on localhost for 
a new link to the application - no configuration needed.  Note: use MS4W 
3.0 beta3 with this Itasca application.

[1] http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html

-jeff


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