Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] RE : [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problems Installing New MapServer Version 4.8.1 on Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0

[Gail Millin]

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Hi Nicolas,   I did try mapserv –v which provided the expected message, I received the following e-mail off Brent Dukes   >Gail,   >Please check your IIS Manager under “Web Service Extensions”  Be sure “All Unknown CGI Extensions” is set to “Allowed” (at least for testing).  If this makes it work, >you can look up how to set Mapserver.exe to a ‘known’ CGI extension.  I don’t have any details on this.    >If this doesn’t fix your problem I can relay you all my Web Site and Application Pool settings.  I can assure you I have the CGI version of Mapserver running on IIS >6/Server 2003 with no problems.  C# MapScript is another story ;)   >Brent T. Dukes   The problem was that “All Unknown CGI Extensions” was set as “Prohibited” instead of “Allowed”! However now I have switched this back to “Prohibited and  selected the ‘Add a New Web Service Extension’ option, here I have defined the extension as .exe and  navigated to mapserv.exe in the cgi-bin directory, I imagine this will be a securer option than allowing all unknown CGI extensions??? I have tested the demo Itasca application and it is still working with this setting. I would be interested to know if there is any other way of setting this that might be better?   Thanks for your suggestions Nicolas   Kind regards   Gail Millin   Geodata Interoperability Support Officer The University of Manchester Kilburn Building Oxford Road M13 9PL   Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 0581 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.landmap.ac.uk   From: Fortin,Nicolas [SteFoy] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2006 14:02 To: Gail Millin; MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: RE : [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problems Installing New MapServer Version 4.8.1 on Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0   Hi Gail,   It could be a permission issue.  Try running filemon (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html) while accessing http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe and search the result for some ACCESS DENIED.   Did you try "mapserv -v" from a command line?   Nicolas -----Message d'origine----- De : UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Gail Millin Envoyé : 14 mars 2006 07:43 À : MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Objet : [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problems Installing New MapServer Version 4.8.1 on Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 Dear MapServer Users,   I would like to install MapServer 4.8.1 on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. However documentation on the MapServer website keeps taking me to the MS4W Installer which is configured for an Apache server. I have consulted the Win32 Compilation and Installation How To document however the link to the MapServer source code that is suggested in this document is broken (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html ). I have downloaded the files from the MS4W installer and tried to adapt the configuration to IIS 6.0. I have managed to install PHP and Mapscript and when I run the test.php script I have   MapScript MapServer Version MapServer version 4.8.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG PHP MapScript Version ($Revision: 1.242.2.1 $ $Date: 2006/01/18 00:37:47 $)   However when I type http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe I do not get the message No query information to decode. Query_String is set, but empty. Instead I get The Page Cannot be Found  HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.Internet Information Services (IIS). I have checked my permissions on cgi-bin directory which has the executable rights switched on, I really cannot think of what is causing this to occur? Also is there no where that provides Mapserver 4.8.1 windows binaries without having to install the ms4w package? I would appreciate any help or suggestions from anyone that has successfully installed Mapserver 4.8.1 on IIS 6 Windows 2003 Kind Regards Gail Gail Millin   E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.landmap.ac.uk