Loading MapInfo tab file problem

[Steve Lime]

Hi Hayden: You should really take this question to the main mapserver-users list. Folks in 
the Twin Cities tend to be ESRI users when they use commercial GIS software so there's
not much expertise on the MapInfo side of things. 

Steve

>>> >>> On 5/21/2007 at 12:00 AM, in message
<LISTSERV%200705210000418779.BF9A at LISTS.UMN.EDU>, Hayden fisher
<support at BIZEASSET.COM.AU> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've just placed MapServer onto IIS and performed some test runs with 
> > shapefiles downloaded with a tutorial. These worked fantastically! Now I've 
> > used the same directory structure and tried to use MapInfo tab files.
> > 
> > The following is my map file and it appeared to be working, I mean no error 
> > were popping up just a blank image.
> > 
> > # mapfile
> > NAME "First"
> > SIZE 400 300
> > IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> > IMAGETYPE PNG
> > EXTENT 159.42 -46.43 181.96 -37.81
> > WEB
> > 	TEMPLATE "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\trial\trial.html"
> > 	IMAGEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\trial\tmp\"
> > 	IMAGEURL "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\trial\tmp\"
> > END
> > LAYER
> > 	NAME "ws_line"
> > 	TYPE line
> > 	CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
> > 	CONNECTION "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\trial\mapfiles\ws_line.tab"
> > 	STATUS ON
> > 	STYLEITEM "AUTO"
> > END
> > END
> > 
> > The next test I did was altered the CONNECTION 
> > to "T:\Inetpub\wwwroot\trial\mapfilgfges\ws_linehgfgs.tab" which is 
> > completely wrong and it still didn't throw up any errors???
> > 
> > Am I newbie to this and totally puzzled, if someone could give any advice I 
> > would most appreciate it!