I had the same problem as the above poster with the "new install" problem (v1.2 and 1.4). Except neither of the fixes mentioned fixed my problem.
Depending on how you built mapserver you may not have support for .gif files. In fact, I think it is recommended that you don't build it with .gif support and instead with .png due to patent issues. All the images in mapsurfer are in .gif format, which won't work unless you've compiled .gif support into mapserver.
To verify the problem, load up debug.html. In the bottom most frame you should get a mapserver error message. The error messages are probably related to "Symbol" errors.
My fix was to take the .gif files and make them into .png. Then I edited the symbol.sym and test.map file, changing all the references of .gif to .png.
Paul
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I had the same problem as the above poster with the "new install" problem (v1.2 and 1.4). Except neither of the fixes mentioned fixed my problem.
Depending on how you built mapserver you may not have support for .gif files. In fact, I think it is recommended that you don't build it with .gif support and instead with .png due to patent issues. All the images in mapsurfer are in .gif format, which won't work unless you've compiled .gif support into mapserver.
To verify the problem, load up debug.html. In the bottom most frame you should get a mapserver error message. The error messages are probably related to "Symbol" errors.
My fix was to take the .gif files and make them into .png. Then I edited the symbol.sym and test.map file, changing all the references of .gif to .png.
Paul