[mapserver-users] New to Mapserver

[Tim Nasman]

Hello Mapserver Community,

I am still trying to grasp the concepts of GIS on a whole and I have a few
preliminary questions that I could use a little more detail about
Mapserver. Currently I am getting a msLoadMap(): Unable to access fille
error with mapserv reading my mapfile within my IIS server even though I
have the security setup correctly on my IIS.
 I am running Mapserver as a WMS with:

IIS 8.5: Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit
Mapserver: 6.0.3
MS4W: 3.0.6

I also think I am still confused about WMS as a whole. From my
understanding you have

SHAPEPATH-this seems to draw your vector data from shapefiles stored on the
server.
IMAGEPATH- the URL where the temporary image file is created from the
shapefiles
IMAGEURL- Base URL for IMAGEPATH


I think as far as the WMS METADATA is where I get a tad confused. Is all
the metadata just information being read from another WMS/database and then
projected onto the map?

WMS_title is the name of the server I am pulling the info from
wms_onlineresource is the url where the map is
wms_srs is the projection of the map
so from what I understand you project these layers form your browser. So
when you project these layers do you also project the shapefiles over these
layers from the Shapepath as well?

 I know the goal of our Mapserver is to receive data from POSTGIS databases
and Microsoft SQL databases and then potentially NOSQL down the road. I
think I may be getting hung up on these test mapfiles but I figured getting
these local files should be the first step in understanding Mapserver as a
whole.

Thank you,
Tim
-- 
Timothy Nasman
Data Analyst | Programmer
Rolling Leaf Inc.
[V] : 910.274.1436
[E] : tnasman at rollingleaf.com <jochs at rollingleaf.com>
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