[ms4w-users] Help with MS4W installation

[Stephen Wallace]

Paul

Thanks for the suggestions

The computer the software is being installed on runs windows XP Pro. I
use both windows explorer 6.0 and Netscape 7.0.
The only XP firewall that appears to be in place is related to internet
connection. I turned this off
ISS was uninstalled from the computer and version ms4w_0.7.zip was
downloaded and installed.

I tried http://localhost/ again with Windows Explorer and got a blank
browser screen and the progress bar of the browser slowly moving to
timeout.
I have seen no messages in the apache box.

Still trying to determine what may be the difficulty

Thanks

Stephen Wallace

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba@magma.ca]
Sent: November 5, 2003 2:04 PM
To: gis@gisrs.com
Cc: ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] Help with MS4W installation


Stephen,

some more things to try:

1. are you running any sort of personal firewall?  WinXP has a tendancy
to set stuff like this up automagically

2. latest version is ms4w_0.7.zip, you can get it from:

http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/ms4w_0.7.zip

I don't think that the changes between 0.6 and 0.7 would account for
this kind of thing, but who knows.

3. What OS are you using

4. What browser and version are you using?

5. Does IIS work if you enable it?

6. Do you get any messages in the 'blank' box after you start Apache?

Cheers,

Paul

Stephen Wallace wrote:

> Paul
>
> I checked the directory structure and it is as you outlined. I
> reinstalled  MS4W and again the apache installation appears to work.
> When I tried http://localhost/ I got the error message "The page
> cannot be displayed".
>
> One note, the version I download was ms4w_0.6.zip.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen Wallace
>
>
>
> I did try extracting the ms4w_0.7.zip and running apache, no problems
> at
>
> this end using either http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/.
>
> Please make sure that you extracted to the root of one of your drives,

> like c: or d: (preferrably c:, it means everything will just work).
>
> this means that if you look in explorer, you should see a directory
> structure like:
>
> c:\ms4w
> c:\ms4w\Apache
> c:\ms4w\apps
> c:\ms4w\httpd.d
> c:\ms4w\proj
> c:\ms4w\tmp
>
> if you don't see this then it won't work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
>
> Stephen Wallace wrote:
>
>>Paul
>>
>>I did remember to turn off IIS, but after the installation.
>>I tried the httP://localhost with the apache window open and closed.
>>
>>I am going to check the installation path info in the readme and
>>packaging.txt again. It seems to be correct but will check again.
>>
>>Should I reply to direct to you or send emails such as this to the
>>list.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba@magma.ca]
>>Sent: November 5, 2003 9:14 AM
>>To: gis@gisrs.com
>>Cc: ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org
>>Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] Help with MS4W installation
>>
>>
>>Stephen,
>>
>>the blank window is expected, it appears as a result of running the
>>Apache executable.
>>
>>I will check the ms4w installer and see if there is a problem with it,
>
>
>>but we have been using this for a while.
>>
>>One possibility, you mentioned IIS.  Is it possible that you have IIS
>>and Apache running at the same time?  The default configuration for
>>both
>>
>>is to listen on port 80, but that can be changed if necessary.
>>
>>Another possibility:  are you leaving the empty window open, or
>>closing it?  You will need to leave it open, or install Apache as a
>>service as indicated in the README.txt file.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>Stephen Wallace wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello list
>>>
>>>I have attempting to install MS4W
>>>
>>>I initialized the MS4W apache web server by running apache.exe and a
>>>blank command window appeared.
>>>
>>>Next to test if apache is running correctly I tried http:/localhost/
>>>and http://127.0.0.1 in widows explorer and both came back as unable
>>>to
>>
>>find.
>>
>>
>>>Any suggestions ?
>>>
>>>Thank You
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Stephen Wallace
>>>
>>
>>
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