[ms4w-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error . trying to implement examples from Bill Kropla's book in WinXP

Tue Apr 15 09:31:03 EDT 2008

follow my exact response in that thread, and look at the template file
in that working example, and compare it to your hello.html and how
those variables are declared.

-jeff

On 4/15/08, Craigie Dirk <CraigieD at dwaf.gov.za> wrote:
> I am having a simmilar problem to
> http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ms4w-users/2008-February/001011.html
>
>
> >> trying to implement examples from Bill Kropla's book in WinXP : Can
> anyone help ?
>
>
>
> Relevent Listings ...
>
>
>
> 1) ms4w/http.d/Begin_ms.conf
>
>
>
> Alias /begin_ms/ "/ms4w/apps/begin_ms/htdocs/"
>
> Alias /ms_tmp/ "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>
> <Directory "/ms4w/apps/begin_ms/">
>
> AllowOverride None
>
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>
> Order allow,deny
>
> Allow from all
>
> </Directory>
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> 2) ms4w/apps/begin_ms/htdocs/hello.html
>
>
>
> <html>
> <head> <title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>
>
> <body>
>     <form method=POST action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>         <input type="submit" value="Click Me">
>         <input type="hidden" name="map"
> value="c:/ms4w/apps/begin_ms/mapdata/hello.map">
>         <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
>                value="/ms_tmp/">     <! -- << this is the line where the
> error message occurs : loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near
> (/ms_tmp/):(line 1) -->
>     </form>
>     <IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 3) ms4w/apps/begin_ms/mapdata/hello.map
>
> # This is our "Hello World" mapfile
> NAME "Hello World"
> SIZE 400 300
> IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
> IMAGETYPE png
> EXTENT -1.0 -1.0 1.0 1.0
> WEB
>      TEMPLATE "http://localhost/begin_ms/hello.html"
>      IMAGEPATH "c:/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp"
>      IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
> END
> LAYER
>      STATUS default
>      TYPE point
>      FEATURE
>           POINTS  0.00 0.00 END
>           TEXT "Hello World"
>      END # end feature
>      CLASS
>           STYLE
>                COLOR 255 0 0
>           END
>           LABEL
>                TYPE bitmap
>           END
>      END
> END
> END
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
> Dirk Craigie
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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