Hi Jill,
Looks like your MapServer installation is working so that's good.
Unfortunately, there are some changes to the way mapfile variables are
defined via URL between MapServer 4.x and MapServer 5.x. If you want to
track the changes yourself, have a look at
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-31.
Or you can just download the MapServer 5.x demo at
http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/workshop-5.0.zip.
The documentation will hopefully be updated soon.
-Perry
Jill Recla wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for help with the MapServer 4.x tutorial. I recently
tried to install the uncompiled version of MapServer 5.0.2 on my
Windows machine. I was able to download the source code and GD
library, but the link to the Regex library FTP site does not work. I
then decided to install a precompiled version of MapServer. I already
had Apache and PHP installed on my machine, so I did not want to
install MS4W over it. Instead I installed FWTools, which came with
MapServer 4.9. I tested MapServer by typing "mapserv -v" in the
command prompt, and by checking the URL. Both tests indicated that
MapServer had been installed correctly. However, I cannot get the 4.x
demo to run. I edited the necessary variables in the index.html file,
but I get the following error:
loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near
(/Web/WebServer/Apache2/htdocs/tmp/):(line 1)
I have checked the forum archives for information regarding this
problem. There are several posts regarding similar problems, but
there is no clear answer as to how to fix it, and the tutorial is
relatively vague. The code for my index.html file is provided below.
Does anyone know how to get around this problem??
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Jill Recla
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<!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION -->
<form name="demo" method="GET"
action="/cgi-bin/FWTools2.0.4/bin/mapserv.exe" onSubmit="submit_form()">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
<input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value="2">
<!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
<input type="hidden" name="map"
value="/Web/WebServer/Apache2/htdocs/workshop4x/itasca.map">
<input type="hidden" name="program"
value="/cgi-bin/FWTools2.0.4/bin/mapserv.exe">
<input type="hidden" name="root" value="/Web/WebServer/Apache2">
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
value="/Web/WebServer/Apache2/htdocs/tmp/">
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl" value="/tmp/">
<select name="map_web_template" size="1">
<option value="itasca_basic.html"> Basic Application
<option value="itasca_adds_scalebar.html"> -- Adds
second scalebar
<option value="itasca_adds_pan.html"> -- Adds pan
controls
<option value="itasca_adds_frames.html"> -- Adds frames
<option value="itasca_adds_dhtml.html"> -- Adds
dhtml rubber-band box
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>
</form>
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