[Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server

[Jeff L.]

Hi,

I went through the documentation "WMS client and WMS server", however it's 
seems that server location of the data have to have mapserver installed. I 
might be wrong. And also there is no suggestion about replacing the 
"SHAPEPATH".

My need is to run the demonstration project, but by decoupling the data from 
the application.
I can run the demo fine if every is installed in the same server. Now i 
moved the shape data to another web server and want to be able to run the 
demonstration.

My understanding is that i would be able to that by making modifications to 
the .map file only. I guess i was wrong.

If there is any example, how to run the demo (or another project) using 
remote data, that would be great.

Jeff Lacoste


>From: "Lowell Filak"<lfilak at medinaco.org>
>To: "Jeff L." <nf10 at hotmail.com>, lfilak at medinaco.org,   
>mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server
>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:47:27 -0400
>
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WMSMapServer
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WFSMapServer
>HTH
>Lowell
>
>The following message was sent by "Jeff L." <nf10 at hotmail.com> on Wed,
>27 Aug 2003 16:11:35 +0000.
>
> > Thanks Lowel for your answer. Could you please point me to how to do
>that ?
> > a document or an url about accessing remote data would be great.
> >
> > Jeff Lacoste
> >
> >
> > >From: "Lowell Filak"<lfilak at medinaco.org>
> > >To: "Jeff L." <nf10 at hotmail.com>, mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > >Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server
> > >Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:05:50 -0400
> > >
> > >That format for accessing data requires that the data looks like a 
>local
> > >file whether it is network mounted or etc.
> > >There is also an option of reading data in a WMS or WFS fashion from a
> > >remote source.
> > >HTH
> > >Lowell
> > >
> > >The following message was sent by "Jeff L." <nf10 at hotmail.com> on Wed,
> > >27 Aug 2003 15:12:32 +0000.
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if the location of data used in MapServer can be a
> > >different
> > > > location from the one where MapServer is running.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to run the MapServer in a server pointing to data in
> > >another
> > > > server. I tried to change this tag in the .map file:
> > > >
> > > > SHAPEPATH "http://www.MyServer.com/data/"
> > > >
> > > > There was an error:
> > > > msOpenSHPFile(): Unable to access file. (MyLayerData)
> > > >
> > > > My data do exist in the "http://www.MyServer.com/data/" location.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using MapServer 3.6.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Jeff Lacoste
> > > >
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