[ms4w-users] Baisc Windows question....

[Barbara H. Carroll]

Tony:

Thanks for the response - I had found your URL and that was a help to me...
So far this is what I have for windows installation:

IMAGEPATH=/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/
IMAGEURL=/ms_tmp/
DocumentRoot=/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/ - so is /var/www/htdocs the same thing?

If you run phpinfo.php from the DocumentRoot it will give you quite a bit of
information.

Programs need to have the extent added to them in order to run ie
/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe rather than /cgi-bin/mapserv

In the book on page 21 they talk about /home/mapdata/hello.map - where is
/home/mapdata/ supposed to be located?

I REALLY appreciated you adding the data files to your posting - I haven't
downloaded them yet, but will later today.

I want to learn how to use MapServer capabilities. This is really
frustrating for me!!!

Barbara

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Gangemi [mailto:gangemia at usq.edu.au] 
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:56 PM
To: Barbara H. Carroll; ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org
Subject: RE: [ms4w-users] Baisc Windows question....

Hi,
 
I'm also using this book with Windows and I've started the process. You
can find my code modifications at the following URL:
http://www.usq.edu.au/users/gangemia/ms/
 
In the mapfiles and template files, you will see the file path
modifications and other minor changes/additions I've made to fit my
Windows system.
 
Some of the issues I've found whilst using this book with Windows XP
are:
 
page 21, the listing for line 04 for Windows must be: <form method =POST
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
Therefore wherever you see "/cgi-bin/mapserv", append it with ".exe"
 
page 53, listing 3-2, after line 007 add the following:
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="/ms4w/tmp/">
page 54, listing 3-3, after line 49 add the the following:
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
value="[map_web_imagepath]">
 
Adding these lines make my applications work.  There are probably more
changes/additions as you get deeper into the book.  So far I'm on
chapter 4 and I still have issues with the chapter 4 code that I need to
resolve  (will investigate this when I find time).
 
Regards

Tony Gangemi

University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia 
Faculty of Engineering and Surveying 
Email: gangemia[at]usq.edu.au 


 

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[mailto:ms4w-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Barbara H.
Carroll
Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 7:39 am
To: ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org
Subject: [ms4w-users] Baisc Windows question....



Hi MS4W Users,

This is my first question to the mailing list and I'm afraid it's a VERY
basic one.  I'm currently going through the exercises from Bill Kropla's
book "Beginning

MapServer: Open Source GIS Development". It's assuming a linux/unix
installation.  I have no clue what to change the parameters to so it
will work with a windows installation.  

Things like:

SHAPEPATH "/home/mapdata/"

TEMPLATE '/var/www/htdocs/first.html'

IMAGEPATH '/var/www/htdocs/tmp/' - I gather this is /ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/

IMAGEURL '/tmp/' and this is /ms_tmp/

 

What do I change the variables to and where to I put them?  Is there
anything else I need to do so this will work.  The basic mapserver is
working without errors.

 

Thanks so much for your help

Barbara