[mapserver-users] mapserver-users Digest, Vol 163, Issue 11

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Wed Aug 18 09:31:01 PDT 2021


Hi Boubacar,

Please make sure that your "MAP=" path is correct (you have spelled 
"htdocs" incorrectly).

Also note that MS4W is designed so that all of your mapfiles & 
applications should live in the /ms4w/apps/ folder (but your htdocs use 
is fine if you wish).


Thank-you for using MS4W.
"MS4W: open doors as well as windows"



-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



On 2021-08-18 12:30 p.m., Boubacar Bah wrote:
> hello jeff mkenna
> I solved the first problem thanks to your solution but it sends another 
> error :*msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. 
> (C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\routes.map). *and yet the mapfile does exist in 
> the location I gave to the map parameter.
> can you help to solve this problem?
> *
> *
> 
> Le mer. 18 août 2021 à 15:53, <mapserver-users-request at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:mapserver-users-request at lists.osgeo.org>> a écrit :
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>         1. MAP Query Parameter (Patrick Young)
>         2. asking help (Boubacar Bah)
>         3. Re: MAP Query Parameter (J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup))
>         4. Re: asking help (J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup))
>         5. asking help (Boubacar Bah)
>         6. Re: asking help (J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup))
>         7. Re: asking help (Jeff McKenna)
>         8. Asking help (Boubacar Bah)
> 
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:37:30 -0600
>     From: Patrick Young <patrick.mckendree.young at gmail.com
>     <mailto:patrick.mckendree.young at gmail.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: [mapserver-users] MAP Query Parameter
>     Message-ID:
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>     <CADXYQQ4=V=JvEgbEhWknyH88R8DOxXpCGPX+g1D9GMMuUbALpw at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:JvEgbEhWknyH88R8DOxXpCGPX%2Bg1D9GMMuUbALpw at mail.gmail.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     I've been working through the mapserver tutorial where my setup is
>     fastcgi
>     using nginx + supervisor running the mapserv process, and the two are
>     talking via a unix socket.
> 
>     I had been banging my head on a 502 error but finally figured it out
>     when I
>     set the map= query parameter to the full, absolute path of the mapfile I
>     was trying to use.
> 
>     In the docs (https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html>) it mentions
> 
>      > MAP [filename] Path, relative to the CGI directory, of the map
>     file to be
>     used.
> 
>     I am curious though, what is the "CGI directory" when you're running
>     under
>     fastcgi?
> 
>     Thanks!
>     Patrick
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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 01:12:44 +0100
>     From: Boubacar Bah <bahbouba.909 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bahbouba.909 at gmail.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: [mapserver-users] asking help
>     Message-ID:
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>     hello how are you, l try to launch an url about mapfile in mapserver
>     but he
>     send an error:  mapserv(): Web application error. Traditional BROWSE
>     mode
>     requires a TEMPLATE in the WEB section, but none was provided.
>     some one can help to resolve this issue
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>     Message: 3
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:01:25 +0200
>     From: J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup)  <joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MAP Query Parameter
>     Message-ID: <ed449c02-5732-c0a6-8149-01f59947af38 at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:ed449c02-5732-c0a6-8149-01f59947af38 at wheregroup.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
>     Hello Patrick,
> 
>     the cgi-directory should be the directory, where your mapserver binary
>     is stored.
> 
>     BUT have you tried to use the absolute path? As I know, it is always the
>     absolute path like in
>     https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/mapserver_quickstart.html#id2
>     <https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/mapserver_quickstart.html#id2>
> 
>     When you're starting with mapserver right know, please read the security
>     advices Steve mentioned a few month ago:
>     https://mapserver.org/announcements/2021-03-30-limit-mapfile-access.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/announcements/2021-03-30-limit-mapfile-access.html>
> 
>     J?rg
> 
> 
> 
>     Am 18.08.21 um 00:37 schrieb Patrick Young:
>      > Hello!
>      >
>      > I've been working through the mapserver tutorial where my setup is
>      > fastcgi using nginx?+ supervisor running the mapserv process, and the
>      > two are talking via a unix socket.
>      >
>      > I had been banging my head on a 502 error but finally figured it out
>      > when I set the map= query parameter to the full, absolute path of the
>      > mapfile I was trying to use.??
>      >
>      > In the docs (https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html>
>      > <https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html>>) it mentions
>      >
>      >> MAP [filename] Path, relative to the CGI directory, of the map
>     file to
>      > be used.
>      >
>      > I am curious though, what is the "CGI directory" when you're running
>      > under fastcgi?
>      >
>      > Thanks!
>      > Patrick
>      >
>      >
>      >
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>     Viele Gr??e,
>     J?rg Thomsen
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>     10717 Berlin
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:17:11 +0200
>     From: J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup)  <joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] asking help
>     Message-ID: <b05f153a-b574-daf5-d427-b757c5c4f34d at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:b05f153a-b574-daf5-d427-b757c5c4f34d at wheregroup.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     congratulations, your installation seems to work, mapserver is able to
>     grumble an moan!
> 
>     A WMS needs some more parameters to know what to do, try to add the
>     getCapabilities-Paramters to your request:
>     ..map=/blah/blubb.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS
> 
>     To see a map you would have to add the getmap request, but you don't
>     want to type that into your browser, so load your wms into any
>     wms-client (QGIS, Mapbender, ..).
> 
>     An easy way is to use the 'built-in' OL-Client:
>     https://mapserver.org/cgi/openlayers.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/cgi/openlayers.html>
> 
>     (here can find a short introduction to the browse-mode mapserver
>     mentions in the error-message:
>     https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/osgeo/mapserver/tutorial/htdocs/example1-9.map&layer=states&layer=modis
>     <https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/osgeo/mapserver/tutorial/htdocs/example1-9.map&layer=states&layer=modis>
>     but I guess, you wont need this)
> 
>     J?rg
> 
> 
> 
>     Am 18.08.21 um 02:12 schrieb Boubacar Bah:
>      > hello how are you, l try to launch an url about mapfile in
>     mapserver but
>      > he send an error:? mapserv(): Web application error. Traditional
>     BROWSE
>      > mode requires a TEMPLATE in the WEB section, but none was provided.
>      > some one can help to resolve this issue
>      >
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>      >
> 
> 
>     Viele Gr??e,
>     J?rg Thomsen
> 
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> 
> 
>     J?rg Thomsen
>     WhereGroup GmbH
>     Bundesallee 23
>     10717 Berlin
>     Germany
> 
>     Fon: +49 (0)30 / 5130 278 74
>     Fax: +49 (0)30 / 5130 278 11
> 
>     joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com <mailto:joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com>
>     www.wheregroup.com <http://www.wheregroup.com>
> 
>     Gesch?ftsf?hrer:
>     Olaf Knopp, Peter Stamm
>     Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 9885
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>     Message: 5
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:59:35 +0100
>     From: Boubacar Bah <bahbouba.909 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bahbouba.909 at gmail.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: [mapserver-users] asking help
>     Message-ID:
>             
>     <CALOg8kEru75Nb35twmeu9uyc85woRFfhcjLfURS4h34r=xyPEQ at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:xyPEQ at mail.gmail.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
>       hello how are you ; i'm using windows, and i'm using openlayer
>     and l use this url:
>     http:\\localhost\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?\C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\exe.map&layer=quinzefevrier&mode=map
>     this is my web section in my mapfile:
> 
>     WEB
>              IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>              IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>          END # WEB
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>     Message: 6
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:23:32 +0200
>     From: J?rg Thomsen (WhereGroup)  <joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] asking help
>     Message-ID: <17839215-21d5-7dcb-9d24-c3c4a713ae50 at wheregroup.com
>     <mailto:17839215-21d5-7dcb-9d24-c3c4a713ae50 at wheregroup.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
>     hello again,
> 
>     try
>     http:\\localhost\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\exe.map&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.3.0&SERVICE=WMS
> 
> 
>     AND
> 
>     http:\\localhost\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\exe.map&layer=quinzefevrier&mode=browse&template=OpenLayers
> 
>     as in
>     https://mapserver.org/cgi/openlayers.html
>     <https://mapserver.org/cgi/openlayers.html>
> 
> 
>     J?rg
> 
> 
>     Am 18.08.21 um 11:59 schrieb Boubacar Bah:
>      > ?hello how are you ; i'm using windows, and i'm using openlayer
>      > and l use this url:
>      >
>     http:\\localhost\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?\C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\exe.map&layer=quinzefevrier&mode=map
>      > this is my web section in my mapfile:
>      >
>      > WEB
>      >         IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>      >         IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>      >     END # WEB
>      >
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>     Viele Gr??e,
>     J?rg Thomsen
> 
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> 
> 
>     J?rg Thomsen
>     WhereGroup GmbH
>     Bundesallee 23
>     10717 Berlin
>     Germany
> 
>     Fon: +49 (0)30 / 5130 278 74
>     Fax: +49 (0)30 / 5130 278 11
> 
>     joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com <mailto:joerg.thomsen at wheregroup.com>
>     www.wheregroup.com <http://www.wheregroup.com>
> 
>     Gesch?ftsf?hrer:
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>     Message: 7
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:05:39 -0300
>     From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>     <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] asking help
>     Message-ID:
>              <45a1a2fc-34c2-457c-e6bc-ef9aab53cd22 at gatewaygeomatics.com
>     <mailto:45a1a2fc-34c2-457c-e6bc-ef9aab53cd22 at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> 
>     Hi Boubacar,
> 
>     Since you are using MS4W, here are some related points for you:
> 
>     - you are missing the "MAP=" part of your request, such as:
> 
> 
>     https://ms4w.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=map&LAYERS=all
>     <https://ms4w.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=map&LAYERS=all>
> 
>     - on your MS4W home page (http://127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>) you
>     can see a link to "open
>     map viewer in new window" (which uses the OpenLayers template) such as:
> 
> 
>     https://ms4w.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=browse&TEMPLATE=openlayers&LAYERS=all
>     <https://ms4w.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=browse&TEMPLATE=openlayers&LAYERS=all>
> 
>     You can modify that url for your local mapfile, such as:
> 
> 
>     http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=browse&TEMPLATE=openlayers&LAYERS=all
>     <http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?MAP=/ms4w/apps/local-demo/local.map&MODE=browse&TEMPLATE=openlayers&LAYERS=all>
> 
>     Make sure that your "MAP=" path to your local mapfile is correct.
> 
> 
>     Thank-you for using MS4W.
>     "MS4W: open doors as well as windows"
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Jeff McKenna
>     GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
>     co-founder of FOSS4G
>     http://gatewaygeo.com/ <http://gatewaygeo.com/>
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2021-08-18 6:59 a.m., Boubacar Bah wrote:
>      >  ?hello how are you ; i'm using windows, and i'm using openlayer
>      > and l use this url:
>      >
>     http:\\localhost\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe?\C:\ms4w\Apache\hdocs\exe.map&layer=quinzefevrier&mode=map
>      > this is my web section in my mapfile:
>      >
>      > WEB
>      >          IMAGEPATH  "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>      >          IMAGEURL  "/ms_tmp/"
>      >      END  # WEB
>      >
>      >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     Message: 8
>     Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:53:12 +0100
>     From: Boubacar Bah <bahbouba.909 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bahbouba.909 at gmail.com>>
>     To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: [mapserver-users] Asking help
>     Message-ID:
>             
>     <CALOg8kGsh1__+4rZBABX+i7feAbceBGVy7_YKQwL1wgGdH+Rdw at mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:CALOg8kGsh1__%2B4rZBABX%2Bi7feAbceBGVy7_YKQwL1wgGdH%2BRdw at mail.gmail.com>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
>     I try to launch an map file but they send an error: msCGILoadMap():web
>     application error. CGI variable "map" is not set if some one can help me
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