Hi, I believe everything is OK. Try saving the file mapserv.exe on your disk and open it with text editor. It is just that WMS standard gives such a MIME type for GetCapabilities response that it is not often recognised as XML.
-Jukka Rahkonen- > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Puolesta > Matthew Pettis > Lähetetty: 4. kesäkuuta 2008 15:56 > Vastaanottaja: [email protected] > Aihe: [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-ma > pfile-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.map&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.map&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
