[MS4W-Users] Newbie problem

[Eli Adam]

James,

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:04 AM, James Screech <james at cyfas.co.uk> wrote:

> I’ve just installed ms4w for the first time as I’m looking to create an
> offline OSM map server.****
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> I’ve followed the instructions in Super_easy_WMS_server.pdf and have the
> server running,  tests 1, 2, & 3 work however when I run test 4 or
> rendering from the pre-installed shapefiles, I get a file download dialog
> (and unknown file type dialog) from my browser (IE8) instead of the map
> being rendered.****
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>

Save the file (possibly an ".exe" file), change the file extension to .txt
or .xml and open and read it.  Inside is probably a MapServer error that
will in some way explain what is wrong with the .map file.

Eli



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