Sounds like your web server is not set up to execute CGI files in the cgi-bin directory. Thus, it is interpreting the request to mapserv.exe as a download request. Without knowing your web server (and possibly if I did), I am unable to make suggestions as to how to alter the configuration.
Robert W. Burgholzer Surface Water Modeler Office of Water Supply and Planning Virginia Department of Environmental Quality [EMAIL PROTECTED] 804-698-4405 Open Source Modeling Tools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Pettis Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS Hi, I'm trying to test ms4w as a WMS for use with OpenLayers. Went through the tutorial at: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server/#setup-a-mapfile-for- your-wms I created a simple mapfile according to the specs (I think). It is after the '===========' delimiter. I called it with the following url: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\map.m ap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities and it asked me to download the mapserv.exe application. Not what i expect. I'm pretty sure everything else is in order, because when I call: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\map.m ap&mode=map I get the expected map in my browser. Any ideas what is wrong or how I am screwing up the incantation? Thanks, Matt =========== MAP ################ # Map attributes ################ IMAGETYPE PNG EXTENT 184056.505 4809728.25 767381.245 5478975.75 SIZE 660 495 IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255 FONTSET "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/fonts/fonts.list" PROJECTION "init=epsg:26915" END #################### # Web settings #################### WEB IMAGEPATH "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tmp/" IMAGEURL "/tmp/" METADATA "wms_title" "WMS Demo Server" "wms_onlineresource" "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?"; END END #################### # State # Background shows through missing precincts to show where no votes will be coming from #################### LAYER NAME "state" METADATA "wms_title" "state" END CONNECTIONTYPE postgis CONNECTION "user=postgres dbname=gisvote password=postgres" DATA "the_geom from shp_state" STATUS default TYPE polygon CLASS NAME "state" COLOR 200 200 200 END END # Layer state END _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
