[Tilecache] Help with installing tilecache on IIS

Sat Sep 8 17:48:27 EDT 2007

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:11:17PM -0700, Linda_Rawson wrote:
> 
> I cannot get this running can someone help me.
> 
> 1.  Made the following changes to tilecache.cgi
> 
>     #!C:/Python25/python.exe -u
> 
> svc =
> Service.load("C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\demo\\tilecache-1.8.1\\tilecache.cfg")
> 
> 2.  Did the following:
> 
> * Install Python for Windows
> * Follow "Using Python Scripts with IIS" to setup Python CGI for IIS.
>   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276494
> * Edit metabase.xml to get correct Security Permissions for IIS 6.0.
>  
> http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/04/20/IIS6-CGI-Web-Service-Extension.aspx
> 
> I got the following script to run:
> 
> print
> print 'Status: 200 OK'
> print 'Content-type: text/html'
> print
> 
> print '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Python Sample CGI</TITLE></HEAD>'
> print '<BODY>'
> print '<H1>This is a header</H1>'
> 
> print '<p>' #this is a comment
> print 'See this is just like most other HTML'
> print '<br>'
> print '</BODY>'
> 
> 3.  Created the following directory and gave it all permissions available.
> 
> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\demo\tmp
> 
> Changed tilecache.cfg to include the following:
> 
> base="C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\demo\\tmp"
> 
> I am still getting pink tiles on index.html and the following 
> 
> http://localhost/demo/tilecache-1.8.1/tilecache.cgi/1.0.0/basic/0/0/0.png
> 
> returns "The website cannot display the page"

What browser are you looking at this in? It sounds like maybe IE: can
you look at it in Firefox? If you 'view source' on the broken image,
does it give you anything useful? (IE tends to create pretty crappy
'helpful' error messages, overriding the content you care about in favor
of its own messages.)

I think you're pretty close -- just not quite there. Hopefully looking
at it in Firefox, or viewing source, will create a more helpful message
for you.

If you view source in Firefox, and don't see anything useful, we can try
something else.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta