[ms4w-users] New user to MS4W configuration problem with Itasca/Demo

[Jeff McKenna]

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The itasca package for MS4W requires no 'tweaking' of Apache.  I'm not 
sure if your Tomcat installation is causing issues.

Maybe someone else has ideas (?)

jeff


john rust wrote:
> Jeff,
>  
> Thanks for the reply.
> Yes - I installed this demo also and get the same results as with the 
> workshop-demo.
> The controls display but no map is displayed.
>  
> When I correct the "action= " to be the correct path for my system
> to be "c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv"
> Then, I get the black cmd window with the message below...flashes by...
>  
> This script can only be used to decode form results and
> should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server.
>  
> Isn't the cgi process supposed to be minimized, and *not* display a 
> black window. 
>  
> Hypothesis: For some reason in my config the cgi mapserv process thinks 
> its being executed not from an http server?  I think there is something 
> in my config that is not quite correct... but I tweaked most of the 
> things that I know about with windows and apache etc.  It is as 
> if apache is invoking mapserv not as a cgi process but just as an 
> executable or something?
>  
> Thanks for any pointers in this regards...
>  
> - John
>  
>  
> -------------------------------------------------
> Demo config below...
>  
>  
> <!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION -->
> <form name="demo" method="GET" action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" 
> onSubmit="submit_form()">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
> <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
> <!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/ms4w/apps/mapserv-demo/itasca.map">
> <input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> <input type="hidden" name="root" value="/mapserv-demo/">
> <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/">
> <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl" value="/ms_tmp/">
> 
> 
> */Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>/* wrote:
> 
>     Actually are you aware that there is a pre-configured Itasca demo
>     package available for download specifically for MS4W? Look for
>     "MapServer Itasca Demo Application" on
>     http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html and use
>     that.
> 
>     jeff
> 
> 
>     john rust wrote:
>      > I installed mS4W on Windows XP Home with the following software
>     installed.
>      >
>      > Eclipse
>      > Tomcat
>      > Apache server
>      > Derby Plug in for Eclipse (java database)
>      > JRE 5.0
>      >
>      > New to the java scripting world, and decided to install the
>     Itasca demo.
>      >
>      > It is installed in C:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/index.html etc.
>      > This is what I have for index.html in the demo…
>      >
>      >
> 
>      > action="c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" onSubmit="submit_form()">
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > value="c:/ms4w/apps/workshop/itasca.map">
>      >
>      > value="c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>      >
>      > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop">
>      >
>      > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/temp/ms_temp">
>      >
>      > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/temp">
>      >
>      > These are values in the c:/ms4w/apache/conf/httpd.conf file
>      > ServerRoot "c:/ms4w/apache"
>      > Listen 80
>      > ServerAdmin admin at local.domain
>      > DocumentRoot "c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs"
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > This is the value I put into the Itasca.map file:
>      > WMS_ONLINERESOURCE http://localhost/workshop/index.html
>      >
>      > Put cgi-bin onto the WINDOWS PATH statement.
>      > Also moved the workshop files around to various directories.
>      > Made various windows folders shareable on the network.
>      >
>      > When I click on the initialize (basic application) button am
>     queried if
>      > I want to run
>      > C:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe ?
>      > I answer yes a coulpe times, but then **nothing** happens?
>      >
>      > What is wrong with my configuration?
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
>      > John Rust
>      > 763-424-7973
>      >


-- 
Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca