[Mapit] MAKING IT WORK on NT4

[Frank Schumacher]

Hi Bernhard,

>>On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Frank Schumacher wrote:
>>> I am having some weird problems in getting showmap to run under NT. It
>> simply does not work. Maybe someone is able to help. I want to use the
>> Personal WebServer instead of mapitserver.py.

>I do not know the "Personal WebServer". 
>Mapit is known to run with ISS and apache on NT, so in principle I believe
>that this must be a problem on your webserver's configuration side.

The Personal Web Server is Microsoft' Freeware Version of IIS that
became available in NT's so-called Option Pack. Its features
should be roughly equivalent to those of Internet Information Server
(apart from being a low volume server).
Needless to say, there are some drawbacks, but there is also an advantage.
Your system doesn't need to be NT Server. That way it runs on NT 
workstations and W9x machines. My system identifies the Personal
Webserver as IIS.



>> showmap.py (I added the extension to the showmap file in order not to
>> irritate NT with a missing file extension )
>> #! d:\mapit\python\python -u -o
>> __version__ = "$Revision: 1.8 $"

>Can you make sure that showmap.py is called with the "-u" option set
>to the python interpreter? This could be an extra configuration 
>part somewhere in your webserver.

As follows clearly from the above, I now ask: How do you do this
on your NT-machine? And what is this supposed to change?


>Apard from that maybe the manual of your webserver has some hints on
>debugging it?

>Best,
 >Bernhard

Bye from Berlin
Frank



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Reiter" <bernhard at intevation.de>
To: <mapit at intevation.de>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapit] MAKING IT WORK on NT4