[Tilecache] Problem Installing TileCache on IIS 5.1

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Sun Jul 8 11:48:39 EDT 2007


On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 02:56:06PM -0700, carlos gordon wrote:
> Hi, i have a couple days traying to install TileCache on IIS 5.1, but i fail in the process... What i did is...
> 1. First i download ActivePython2.5.0.0, and install it.
> 2. I follow the instucctions on the site http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276494,creating the virtual directory and given the permissions
> 3. I cannot do the 3rd step, change the metabase.xml, because i don't know where it is? 
> 4. I edit the tilecache.cgi, in this way...
> i call de tilecache.cgi from OpenLayers, but it doesn't seems to work properly (i just get pink tiles), and when i use the firefox browser and put the url:
> http://localhost/tilecache/tilecache.cgi?layers=base
> 
> i get this message:
>  %1 is not a Win32 valid application
> 
> I will be really thanxfull if someone can give me a hand about this subject...

I have no idea how to use IIS, and no setup for testing with it. The
first step for help is probably to figure out how to run Python CGIs 
under IIS, which is a non-TileCache specific problem: I don't know where
one would look for help on that, but you might look around for tips on
that.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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