mapserv(1)

✨ mapserv — the manual page 💖

okay so you're here for mapserv, the MapServer CGI interface but make it command line. yes bestie, we're running a whole map server from terminal and it's giving main character energy. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

mapserv — mapserver CGI interface 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mapserv [-v | [-nh] QUERY_STRING=" QUERY_STRING" ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

mapserv gives you commandline access to the MapServer CGI interface. like, the whole CGI thing but you're the one typing it. icon. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v — spill the tea on the mapserver version and the build options. that's it. that's the whole flag. 👑
• -nh — suppress the HTTP headers. lowkey useful when you don't want all that header noise in your output. 🙈
• QUERY_STRING="QUERY_STRING" — the CGI QUERY_STRING parameter, fr fr. for example:

QUERY_STRING="MAP=/home/user/wfs.map&SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities"

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

bestie you can test the CGI interface straight from the commandline by using the "QUERY_STRING" switch. like this:

mapserv "QUERY_STRING=map=/home/user/wms.map&mode=map"

and to suppress the HTTP headers, you use the -nh switch, like so:

mapserv -nh "QUERY_STRING=map=/home/user/wms.map&mode=map"

and if you wanna save the output into an image file, use the pipe command, such as:

mapserv -nh "QUERY_STRING=map=/home/user/wms.map&mode=map" > test.png

no cap, that last one is the one you'll be using the most. pipe it, redirect it, slay it. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• MapServer CGI Documentation ⟨http://mapserver.org/cgi/index.html⟩

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that's the whole page babes, you ate it up. this lil gem is dated 22 August 2026 and it's the mapserv(1) manual, so you knooooow it's official 💜 bye bestie!! 🎀✨