[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] first time mapserver install, error on empty query

[Tara Athan]

Thanks Gregor, that got me a little farther along! So ... I recompiled GD without Xpm.  That worked and I was able to make the mapserv executable. Then I copied it to the cgi-bin directory in my account. When I put the URL http://www.alt2is.com/cgi-bin/mapserv? into my browser I get 500 Server Error A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again. I don't know how to "check the server logs" I got a copy of Tyler Mitchell's book and have been checking the Mapserver installation chapter there. So I tried ./mapserv -v The results was ./mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any suggestions anyone? Tara Gregor Mosheh wrote: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libXpm.so.4, needed by /home/alttwois/lib/gd-2.0.35/.libs/libgd.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: warning: libX11.so.6, needed by /home/alttwois/lib/gd-2.0.35/.libs/libgd.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /home/alttwois/lib/gd-2.0.35/.libs/libgd.so: undefined reference to `XpmReadFileToXpmImage' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [shp2img] Error 1 There ya go -- your GD was compiled with Xpm support, but the Xpm library isn't found. Try this:    ldconfig -p | grep -i xpm That'll show whether Xpm is installed. Alternative: If you compiled GD yourself, and my memory serves, you can give --without-x to have it skip X-Window stuff. You won't miss it. :)