[FGS] Please HELP! ultra newbie!

Thu Apr 16 11:20:37 EST 2009

Hi list!
I am Alberto C. and live in Argentina
I recently involucred in this and I whish implement gis in my work.
But I have a problem:
I unzip workshop-5.0 from mapserver and install into the fgs tree,
that in this case is into my home directory.
in fgs tre, into the www/htdocs I copy all files, well...

I run with http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv
and I get a response that httpd server runs:

"No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty. "

Well... when I run the site example I can see the index running:

"MapServer Itasca Application (ms v5.0)"
But when I clic on 'initialize' I get the following error:

Content-type: text/html isValidTemplate(): Web application error.
Missing magic string, itasca_basic.html doesn't look like a MapServer
template.
My index html is the followng, I remember that I install fgs like
normal user and my user is 'winter':

<html>
  <head>
    <title>MapServer Itasca Application</title>
    <script language="javascript">
      function configure() {
			  var template =
document.demo.template.options[document.demo.template.selectedIndex].value;

        // EDIT THE NEXT 2 LINES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP
        var snippet = "IMAGEPATH '/home/winter/fgs/www/htdocs/graphics'";
        snippet += " IMAGEURL '/tmp/'";
        snippet += " TEMPLATE " + template;
        document.demo.map_web.value = snippet;

        if(template.indexOf("frame") != -1) document.demo.action =
"frames.html";
        if(template.indexOf("dhtml") != -1) document.demo.action =
"frames_dhtml.html";
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

    <center><h2>MapServer Itasca Application (ms v5.0)</h2></center>
    <p><hr><p>
    This demonstration application will take you through various
levels of complexity. Starting with a basic application that
    allows a user to pan/zoom and change layers we add:
    <ul>
      <li> dynamically configured scalebars
      <li> javascript-based panning
      <li> query results to a frame
      <li> and finally, a DHTML rubber-band zoom/query capabilty
    </ul>
    The base data is the old-reliable Itasca dataset that we know and love...

    <!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION -->
    <form name="demo" method="GET" action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"
onSubmit="configure()">

      <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
      <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
      <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
      <input type="hidden" name="map_web" value="">

      <!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
      <input type="hidden" name="map"
value="/home/winter/fgs/www/htdocs/itasca.map">
      <input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
      <input type="hidden" name="root" value="/">

      <select name="template" size="1">
        <option value="itasca_basic.html"> Basic Application
        <option value="itasca_adds_scalebar.html"> &nbsp;&nbsp;-- Adds
second scalebar
        <option value="itasca_adds_pan.html"> &nbsp;&nbsp;-- Adds pan controls
        <option value="itasca_adds_frames.html"> &nbsp;&nbsp;-- Adds frames
        <option value="itasca_adds_dhtml.html"> &nbsp;&nbsp;-- Adds
dhtml rubber-band box
      </select>
      <input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>

    </form>

    <p><hr>
    <table width="100%"><tr><td align="right">This site running
MapServer v. 5.0</td></tr></table>
  </body>
</html>

Any can help me please???
Thank you to all for now!