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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi, I am new to webpublishing but know
GIS.<BR>Configuration:<BR>I am using NT4.0 (SP4), IIS & IE4.1 and the NT
server (named //aptiva) console to run the mapserver demo.<BR>I installed
mapserv.exe in c:/cgi-bin and the other files in
InetPub\wwwroot\ms_demo.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>From the demo on the internet I understand that
to start the demo you have to call the initfile in IE, in my case
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ms_demo\demo_t2.html (see below,I changed the contents of the
original demo_init.html file I downloaded)<BR>demo_t2.html
source:<BR>----------------------------<BR><html></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><head><BR><title>MapServer Demo
Interface</title><BR></head></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><h2 align="center">MapServer
Demo Interface</h2></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><form method="GET"
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"><BR> <input
type="hidden" name="map"
value="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ms_demo\demo.map"><input<BR>
type="hidden" name="layer"
value="lakes"><input type="hidden"
name="layer" value="streams"><input
type="hidden" name="zoomsize"
value="2"><div
align="center"><center><p><input
type="submit" value="Initialize"> </p><BR>
</center></div><BR></form></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><hr><BR></body><BR></html><BR>-----------------------------<BR>When
I press initialize, I get the following errormsg -> File download (you have
choosen to download a file mapserv.exe from c:\cgi-bin bla bla bla)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Alternatively when I change in demo_t2.html:
<form method="GET"
action="http://aptiva/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"> and press initialize, I
get the following errormsg ->HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error (The system cannot
find the path specified. )<BR>Question: What am I doing wrong?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Question:<BR>1. From the source of demo.html
online I notice the mentioning of a demo.layout file, which I don't have in my
files. Do I need that file?<BR>2. I also read in the creating applications page
about the use of either the GET or the POST cgi request. The online demo uses
POST and some other commands. Which should I use?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>TIA,<BR>Ronald Lieuw<BR>Curacao, Neth.
Antilles<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>