--- layout: example.html title: MapServer CGI shortdesc: Example of a MapServer CGI map. docs: > Example of a map generated using the MapServer [CGI Controls](https://mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html). The CGI interface allows testing a Mapfile without having to configure WMS services. The Mapfile used in this example can be seen [here](https://demo.mapserver.org/itasca_legend/itasca3.txt). It is **strongly** recommended to configure MapServer to serve WMS and use the OpenLayers WMS loader, rather than this older CGI approach. tags: "mapserver, cgi" ---