[mapserver-users] Server Root

[Alexander Petkov]

Most likely the absolute path to example1-1.map is not correct and
thus cannot be found by mapserv.

If you do "ls -alh /ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map" in a
terminal window is it being listed? I am assuming that this can be
done on a Mac, of course...

Alex

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Lewin
<alewin at spatialconserve.com> wrote:
> Dear Listers,
> I am a beginner user of Mapserver.  I installed Mapserver and Apache2
> successfully.  I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
> I downloaded the tutorial data and tried to view Example 1, but I was unable
> to do so.  I got the error for the following command:
> http://192.168.1.147/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map
> msLoadMap(): Unable to access file.
> (/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map)
>  I noticed that the example1-1.map was not in the htdocs file in the file
> tree that I downloaded, but it was in the mapfile folder.
> I still got the same error.
> I searched around for the solutions on the web, but I didn't really
> understand them.  I think the problem is that I can't find the web root
> where the files should be stored.
> I looked in the httpd.config file and saw that the ServerRoot was "/usr" so
> I added the tutorial files in that folder, but again no solution.  What am I
> doing wrong?
> I would appreciate any help you can provide?
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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