James,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:04 AM, James Screech <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@cyfas.co.uk" target="_blank">james@cyfas.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve just installed ms4w for the first time as I’m looking to create an offline OSM map server.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>Eli<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I assume I’m just doing something silly, but I know nothing about map rendering.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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