On Jul 10, 2009, at 11:28 AM, rmaurer wrote:
So I'm a first time MapServer user and have been trying to navigate
the installation process. I think I almost have it, but I am having
some last problems.
Just a check: are you using my installer, or compiling from source?
What OSX version?
If you are using my installer, and are on OSX 10.4, Mapserver is built
for Apache 1.3, as found in the system, and it probably won't work
correctly, if at all with an added-on Apache 2.
If you are on OSX 10.5, why not just use the system Apache 2?
When I access my executable mapserv file from the command line, I
get this:
This script can only be used to decode form results and should be
initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server.
All sounds good, right? Well, I am using MAMP to host an Apache2.0
server. The httpd.conf file has the following in it:
Alias /cgi-bin/ "[rootfile]/cgi-bin/"
Directory "[rootfile]/cgi-bin/\>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Directory\>
Are the starting '<' really missing, or did Mail strip them out? I
also see closing quotes missing and extra \ chars. Should be:
<Directory "[rootfile]/cgi-bin/">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py
I know that first line should probably be ScriptAlias, but I kept
getting a "Permission Denied" message and read in a forum that this
was a solution somebody had come up with, and indeed it worked for
me as well.
Anyways, the problem is that in this cgi-bin I have my mapserv
executable (though one of the things I'm thinking is that maybe I
need to add something else to AddHandler to make it think that this
file is executable?).
That addhandler is to run scripts as CGI. Mapserv is a binary, so all
it should need is ExecCGI.
But when I got to //localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv it tries to download
the file as "Untyped Binary Data" and it doesn't execute anthing.
I'm not sure, but you may need to load the mod_cgi module in your
httpd.conf. Though it may only apply to script CGIs also.
In case its of any help the ls -l for my cgi-bin gives the following
information: -rwxr-xr-x 1 Rebecca Rebecca 51244 Jul 9 07:52 mapserv
Do I not have this installed correctly? Or is my server just not
realizing that this is executable. I would be thrilled if I could
just get to the point where //localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv just brought
up a "No query information to decode" message, since I think I can
handle it from there.
And, make sure to restart Apache after changing httpd.conf ;)
Oh, and make sure that the system Apache is not running (System
Preferences->Sharing->Web Sharing), as it will be using the same port
and your MAMP Apache won't even start.
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