[mapserver-users] create wms service with mapserver

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2015-11-23 12:30 PM, rishi wrote:
> i am trying to create wms service using postgres data in mapserver my
> map file(wms.map) is
>
> MAP EXTENT 8240841.450745 2400319.900386 9218007.463612 3107183.406947
> TRANSPARENT on IMAGETYPE png size 150 500
>
> |web metadata |
>
> "wms_title" "Customer Airports" "wms_onlineresource"
> "http://localhost:8085/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?" "wms_enable_request" "*"
> "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326 EPSG:900913" "wms_feature_info_mime_type"
> "text/html" "wms_format" "image/png"
>
> |end end |
>
> LAYER CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
> CONNECTION "user=postgres password=abcd dbname=sample port=5432
> host=localhost" DATA "geom FROM district_old using unique gid"
>
> |STATUS Default TYPE polygon PROJECTION "init=epsg:900913" END labelitem
> 'district' class style #color 55 230 51 outlinecolor 90 90 90 width 2
> end LABEL #color 255 255 255 size 2 BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 201 14 position
> auto END end |
>
> END
>
> END
>
> in the browser when i paste the url
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=c://ms4w/apps/webgis/wms.map&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities"
>
> it is not displaying the xml file instead it is downloading the
> mapserv.exe file
>
> please correct my code also tell me the requirements to work with wms
>
>
>

Try renaming the returned "mapserv.exe" file as "mapserv.xml" and open 
it in a text editor.  You should be able to then read the 
GetCapabilities response.

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
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