Steven De Vriendt <gisaalter <at> GMAIL.COM> writes: > > > Hi, > > Hi, > > If you're a beginner I can advise you this book by Tyler Mitchell > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008651/qid=1145100799/sr=1- 3/ref=sr_1_3/104-2997351-0606345?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 > > It covers a lot of the basics to MapServer, like you I'm quite new to MapServer etc...but I've learned quite a lot from this book. > > Good luck ! > > On 4/15/06, Catalin G. <catalin_gn <at> yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, I really need to learn how to implement mapserver technology on a site, but I could use some tips for the begining. I installed ms4w on my computer so now I have mapserver installed and chamelon too. The problem is when I tried to add the demo files in my mapserver directory structure. > I added the files from DEMO here: E:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/itasca. I launched in my browser the next link: > http://localhost/itasca/demo_init.html. Now I should update the file demo.map and demo_init.html in order to make this to work. Here is the problem, cause I don't think I do it corectly. <form method=GET action="/cgi- bin/mapserv"> > <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/ms4w/apache/htdocs/itasca/demo.map">What is the correct URL? And a second problem. Can you guide to some basics of mapserver? I look on the site, but I didn't found some step to stept explanations. > Thanks a lot! > > Catalin G. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Catalin,
I found the book "Beginning MapServer, Open Source GIS Development" by BILL KROPLA extremely useful and has helped me a lot ! It takes you through the very basics of MapServer and explains what all the code is and what it does. Also, in your code <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"> try adding .exe to the end of mapserv (ie, <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">) as i had similar problems when i started out, and all it took was to add the ".exe". Cheers, Steve
