<div>Yes some things in addition to consider... with this problem</div> <div> </div> <div>1) Tomcat is installed (butshutdown)</div> <div>2) SQL Server is installed (but end-process in taskmanager was performed)</div> <div>3) Oracle Express Edition is installed (but end-process in task manager performed)</div> <div>4) Eclispe devlopment env. is installed but not up and running</div> <div>5) Derby embedded JDBC database installed (but no processes to start/stop)</div> <div> </div> <div>A service for one of these might be conflicting </div> <div>with the cgi call to Mapserv? I did an end-process on sqlserver, oracle</div> <div>and shutdown of tomcat. But there are a bunch of svchost.exe process's</div> <div>running - which I don't know what they are doing....</div> <div>Tasklist does not appear to work on Xp-Home edition. </div> <div>When I click on the itasca demo file "index.html" and select Basic Application </div>
<div>the black cmd window flashes by and no map is displayed. </div> <div> </div> <div>I believe the message in the black cmd window is: </div> <div> </div> <div>"This script can only be used to decode form results and<BR>should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server."</div> <div> </div> <div>When mapserv is executed on a windows system, isn't it supposed</div> <div>to be minimized or in icon form? Or should one normally</div> <div>see a black cmd window flash by while it does it's thing? </div> <div> </div> <div>If could glean a little more information from Windows/system </div> <div>then understand what is going on and why mapserv thinks it</div> <div>is not being invoked as a cgi? Any more insights form the Map Server</div> <div>group would be greatly appreciated as to why the itasca demo is not</div> <div>working on my Windows Xp-Home machine....Much Appreciate. </div> <div>Some of the
items mentioned above may be red-herrings.. but for</div> <div>lack of any further direction to look for thought would at least mention them. </div> <div> </div> <div>Regards, </div> <div>John Rust</div> <div>763-424-7973</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@dmsolutions.ca></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">(please always respond to the mailing list)<BR><BR>The itasca package for MS4W requires no 'tweaking' of Apache. I'm not <BR>sure if your Tomcat installation is causing issues.<BR><BR>Maybe someone else has ideas (?)<BR><BR>jeff<BR><BR><BR>john rust wrote:<BR>> Jeff,<BR>> <BR>> Thanks for the reply.<BR>> Yes - I installed this demo also and get the same results as with the <BR>> workshop-demo.<BR>> The controls display but no map is displayed.<BR>> <BR>> When I correct the "action= " to be the correct path for
my system<BR>> to be "c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv"<BR>> Then, I get the black cmd window with the message below...flashes by...<BR>> <BR>> This script can only be used to decode form results and<BR>> should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server.<BR>> <BR>> Isn't the cgi process supposed to be minimized, and *not* display a <BR>> black window. <BR>> <BR>> Hypothesis: For some reason in my config the cgi mapserv process thinks <BR>> its being executed not from an http server? I think there is something <BR>> in my config that is not quite correct... but I tweaked most of the <BR>> things that I know about with windows and apache etc. It is as <BR>> if apache is invoking mapserv not as a cgi process but just as an <BR>> executable or something?<BR>> <BR>> Thanks for any pointers in this regards...<BR>> <BR>> - John<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------------------------------------------<BR>> Demo
config below...<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION --><BR>> <FORM name=demo action=/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe method=get <br>> onSubmit="submit_form()"><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=lakespy2 name=layer><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=dlgstln2 name=layer><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=2 name=zoomsize><BR>> <!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES --><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=/ms4w/apps/mapserv-demo/itasca.map name=map><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe name=program><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=/mapserv-demo/ name=root><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/ name=map_web_imagepath><BR>> <INPUT type=hidden value=/ms_tmp/ name=map_web_imageurl><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> */Jeff McKenna <JMCKENNA@DMSOLUTIONS.CA>/* wrote:<BR>> <BR>> Actually are you aware that there is a pre-configured Itasca demo<BR>> package available for download specifically for MS4W? Look for<BR>> "MapServer Itasca Demo
Application" on<BR>> http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html and use<BR>> that.<BR>> <BR>> jeff<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> john rust wrote:<BR>> > I installed mS4W on Windows XP Home with the following software<BR>> installed.<BR>> ><BR>> > Eclipse<BR>> > Tomcat<BR>> > Apache server<BR>> > Derby Plug in for Eclipse (java database)<BR>> > JRE 5.0<BR>> ><BR>> > New to the java scripting world, and decided to install the<BR>> Itasca demo.<BR>> ><BR>> > It is installed in C:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/index.html etc.<BR>> > This is what I have for index.html in the demo…<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> > action="c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" onSubmit="submit_form()"><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > value="c:/ms4w/apps/workshop/itasca.map"><BR>> ><BR>> >
value="c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"><BR>> ><BR>> > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop"><BR>> ><BR>> > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/temp/ms_temp"><BR>> ><BR>> > value="c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/workshop/temp"><BR>> ><BR>> > These are values in the c:/ms4w/apache/conf/httpd.conf file<BR>> > ServerRoot "c:/ms4w/apache"<BR>> > Listen 80<BR>> > ServerAdmin admin@local.domain<BR>> > DocumentRoot "c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs"<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > This is the value I put into the Itasca.map file:<BR>> > WMS_ONLINERESOURCE http://localhost/workshop/index.html<BR>> ><BR>> > Put cgi-bin onto the WINDOWS PATH statement.<BR>> > Also moved the workshop files around to various directories.<BR>> > Made various windows folders shareable on the network.<BR>> ><BR>> > When I click on the initialize (basic application) button
am<BR>> queried if<BR>> > I want to run<BR>> > C:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe ?<BR>> > I answer yes a coulpe times, but then **nothing** happens?<BR>> ><BR>> > What is wrong with my configuration?<BR>> ><BR>> > Regards,<BR>> ><BR>> > John Rust<BR>> > 763-424-7973<BR>> ><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Jeff McKenna<BR>DM Solutions Group Inc.<BR>http://www.dmsolutions.ca<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>ms4w-users mailing list<BR>ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org<BR>http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FORM><p> 
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