So I have been using a lax enforcement of WMS for a while then lol. So if I have understood correctly then if I correctly specify these details in the mapfile itself then if a parameter is blank it should default to that? Thereby avoiding any errors?
I am hoping that that will fix the problem since I don't have many of these things specified as I was using only the bare essentials before. I will try this and also try a mapserver layer too, to do some tests and get back to you. Where can I access the webserver's access_log? Cheers Brad PS: Question was posted to OpenLayers lists as well On 14/12/2007, Gregor Mosheh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bradley McLain wrote: > > I got it to > > finally display again using the request shown below: > > > http://192.168.1.130/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/mapfiles/mswmsrq.map&service=wms&version=1.1.1&request=getmap&SRS=EPSG:4326&layers=grap,grcad,cadbd,propbd,fmbl,varbl&BBOX=144.841,-34.5838,146.344,-34.0477&format=image/png&width=800&height=600&styles= > > > Seems pretty normal to me. A styles param is optional, and it's normal > for a WMS client to include a blank styles param. Don't worry about that. > > It's also very normal to require the width, height, bbox, and SRS, and > format. If it was working before without them, defaulting to whatever > was in the mapfile, then that was a lax enforcement of WMS standard and > you should be glad it's been fixed. ;) > > > > Despite this I cannot get WMS requests out of OpenLayers to work at all, > > even adding all of the extra parameters it is asking for. > > Since WMS seems to be working, this must be an OpenLayers issue. > Fortunately, I use OpenLayers and Mapserver-WMS all the time; MapServer > is my favorite WMS server. :) > > So, you should probably take this up on the OpenLayers list (of which > several of us are also members) as being OL failing to load an > otherwise-functioning WMS layer. > > The first things I would ask from a OL perspective: > * Have you tried OpenLayers.Layer.MapServer and gotten the same results? > * Have you watched the webserver's access_log and then tried pasting > those URLs into your browser? That's my #1 debugging method. > > And if you can make the server and the map accessible, that would go a > long way towards us being able to guess what's going on. > > -- > Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth > System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development & hosting services > http://www.HostGIS.com/ > > "Remember that no one cares if you can back up, > only if you can restore." - AMANDA >
