[mapserver-users] How to point mapserv to my mapfile?

[jenia mtl]

I got it.

It's the `map`parameter in the URL.

Thanks in any case everyone.

Writing this email helped me discover the answer ;)

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 6:46 PM, jenia mtl <jenia.ivlev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
>
> How can I specify the mapfile path to the mapserv fastcgi process?
>
> My problem is that I get a 502 error when try to access
>
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map
>
> I get:
>
>     2016/07/23 17:45:22 [error] 1768#1768: *7 upstream prematurely closed
>     FastCGI stdout while reading response header from upstream, client:
>     127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET
>     /cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-
> 1.map&layer=states&mode=map
>     HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:8001", host: "localhost"
>
>
> This is how I start mapserver:
>
>     `spawn-fcgi   -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8001 /usr/bin/mapserv`
>
>
> I'm thinking it's because I didn't specify a `mapfile`. And in any case,
> I'd like to see the error logs from mapserver (error logs configs go to
> the mapfile apperently).
>
> So again, where is the `mapfile` or how do I specify the `mapfile` path
> for the `mapserv`instance?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your kind help.
> Jenia
>
>
> P.S. This is my nginx config:
>
>     server {
>
>         listen       80;
>         server_name  localhost;
>         error_log /home/jenia/error.log;
>         access_log /home/jenia/access.log;
>
>         location ~ / {
>             fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8001;
>             error_log /home/jenia/error.log;
>             access_log /home/jenia/access.log;
>         }
>     }
>
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