Hi Listers,
I am trying to learn MapServe as a beginner and I am having lots of trouble
with the fundamentals of setting up the program. I am running Mac OSX Snow
Leopard with Apache.
According to my httpd-conf file, my document root is /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/
; however, when I use the tutorial data the files need to be in my root
directory i.e. /ws4w/etc... I thought that all the data had to be in the
document root. Can someone explain this to me please?
Another problem I am having...I bought the book "Beginning Mapserver: Open
Source GIS Development". The first simple example is a "Hello World" example.
The program starts off with a "Click Me" botton and a broken image. When you
click on the button, it is supposed to show the "Hello World" text. When I
click, I get an error like this: "msLoadMap(): Premature End-of-File." Below
are the two files that I used for the program"
Hello.html
<html>
<head><title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>
<body>
<form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
<input type="submit" value="Click Me">
<input type="hidden" name="map"
value="/home1/mapdata/Hello.map">
<input type="hidden" name="map-web-imagepath"
value="/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/">
<form>
<IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>
</body>
</html>
Hello.map
# This is our "Hello World" maple
NAME "Hello_World"
SIZE 400 300
IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
IMAGETYPE png
EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00
WEB
TEMPLATE "http://192.168.2.12/~andrewlewin/hello.html";
IMAGEPATH "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/"
IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
END
The book suggests that I should Configure MapServer and Apache like this:
shapes:
mkdir /home/mapdata
chown nobody:nobody /home/mapdata
chmod u+rx /home/mapdata
images:
mkdir /var/www/htdocs/tmp
chown nobody:nobody /var/www/htdocs/tmp
chmod u+rx /var/www/htdocs/tmp
The problem is that when I try to run these commands, I get a "Permission
denied" error. How can I get permission to do this. I remember when I was
installing the various components from binaries that there was a command to ask
me for my password before I did anything to the directory, but I forgot. Can
anyone tell me?
Sorry for posting all this at once. I believe once I figure out these problems
I will be able to move on.
Thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Lewin, M.Sc., Adv. Dipl. GIS
President
Spatial-Conserve Inc.
www.spatialconserve.com
Email: ale...@spatialconserve.com
Tel: (905) 639-4646
Mobile: (905) 630-8441
Skype: andrew.lewin99
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