Hi, since you are running Tomcat and Geoserver, you are better off using:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+Proxy+Extension Best regards, Bart On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:26 PM, moataz Elmasry wrote: > Hello List > > I know that this topic has been visited many times > > I'm aware of the following pages: > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost > http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/examples/proxy.cgi > and the threads: > http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2006-November/000158.html > http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2009-September/013890.html > > I created a web project under eclipse and I'm running tomcat also under > eclipse as a server. geoserver is also used standealone > I followed the steps in the many tutorials > 1- uncomment the cgi servlet block and the mapping block > 2- rename the servlet jar > 3- put the proxy.cgi file under WEB-INF/cgi > 4- I also copied that same proxy.cgi under cgi-bin/ (i.e. two copies of > proxy.cgi, I know its probably wrong, but I got confused with the tutorials) > 5- both proxy.cgi are made executable with chmod > 6- when I run localhost:8080/myproject/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi I get the > content of that file not the openlayers page > > The file exists, only its not executed > Any points what can I do? > > Best regards > 5- Now when I call > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users