<div>Jeff, </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Sorry about not responding to the mailing list.</div>  <div>Just determined to get&nbsp;mapserv software running and included</div>  <div>in the project for the&nbsp;on-line biological survey database.&nbsp; </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Here is what was done this time, and the results. I know this is a slow </div>  <div>and iterative process... but am willing to work with it&nbsp;until it works.&nbsp; </div>  <div>Just don't understand why its not working for me. Have done nothing</div>  <div>to change&nbsp;the mapserv directory,&nbsp; files, or configuration since last time</div>  <div>we e-mailed.&nbsp; Apache Web server is still up and running. &nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Extracted the mapserv_demo_ms4w.zip to the existing directory c:/ms4w</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>It resulted in creating these additional files which were added to the</div>  <div>existing c:/ms4w directory structure.&nbsp;</div> 
 <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>c:/ms4w/appache/htdocs/mapserv-demo.pkg.html</div>  <div>c:/ms4w/httpd.d/httpd_mapserv_demo.conf </div>  <div>c:/ms4w/apps/mapserv_demo/index.html</div>  <div>c:/ms4w/apps/mapserv_demo/itasca.map </div>  <div>c:/ms4w/apps/mapserv_demo/itasca_adds_dhtml.html</div>  <div>etc. (other demo files). </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>The contents of the file c:/ms4w/httpd.d/httpd_mapserv_demo.conf</div>  <div>are pasted below: </div>  <div><FONT size=1>Alias /mapserv-demo/ "/ms4w/apps/mapserv-demo/"</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1></FONT>&nbsp;</div>  <div><FONT size=1>&lt;Directory "/ms4w/apps/mapserv-demo/"&gt;</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&nbsp;&nbsp; AllowOverride None</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&nbsp;&nbsp; Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews </FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&nbsp;&nbsp; Order allow,deny</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&nbsp; Allow from all</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&lt;/Directory&gt;</FONT></div>  <div>&nbsp;</div> 
 <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>The contents of c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/mapserv-demo.html are: </div>  <div><FONT size=2><FONT size=1>&lt;h3&gt;MapServer Itasca Demo Application&lt;/h3&gt;</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&lt;blockquote&gt;</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/mapserv-demo/"&gt;MapServer demo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</FONT></div>  <div><FONT size=1>&lt;/blockquote&gt;</FONT></div></FONT>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>The results after clicking on: &nbsp;</div>  <div>c:/ms4w/apps/mapserv-demo/index.html </div>  <div>and bringing up the initial demo page are as follows: </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Select -&nbsp;basic-application (click initialize)</div>  <div>---&gt;&nbsp;Nothing happens.&nbsp; </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Select - dhtml-add-rubber band box (click - initialize)</div>  <div>---&gt; The controls appear&nbsp;but no map is displayed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>The windows alert box with the question about
 running </div>  <div>c:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe&nbsp;&nbsp; is ***not***&nbsp; asked</div>  <div>in either of the the two test cases&nbsp;mentioned above. </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>Regards, </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>- John Rust</div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div><BR><B><I>Jeff McKenna &lt;jmckenna@dmsolutions.ca&gt;</I></B> wrote:</div>  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Again, always respond to the mailing list. If u want direct support, we <BR>have rates for that (http://shop.dmsolutions.ca/support.html).<BR><BR>Yes, any ms4w package must be extracted to the same root of your ms4w <BR>base installation - yes overwrite directories and files.<BR><BR>jeff<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>john rust wrote:<BR>&gt; Jeff,<BR>&gt; Should I unzip mapserv_dem_ms4w directly to c:/ms4w but answer *NO* to <BR>&gt; overrwritting any existing directories or files? <BR>&gt; - John <BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; */Jeff
 McKenna <JMCKENNA@DMSOLUTIONS.CA>/* wrote:<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; it seems like your zip client is adding the zipfile name to all<BR>&gt; extracted<BR>&gt; paths. ouch.<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; jeff<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; 7) Unzip of mapserv_demo_ms4w results in this directory structure :<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w/apache<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w/apps<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w/httpd.d<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w/apps/mapserv_demo<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt; c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w/ms4w/apps/mapserv_demo/index.html<BR>&gt; &gt;&gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt; it does? Are you using mapserv_demo_ms4w.zip from<BR>&gt; &gt; http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html? It<BR>&gt; does not<BR>&gt; &gt; create a "c:/mapserv_demo_ms4w" folder. Are you saying that it does?<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; &gt;
 jeff<BR>&gt; &gt;<BR>&gt; <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><p>&#32;
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