[mapserver-users] Relative path's in mapfile

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

I have been thinking that the the MAP METADATA parameter "wms_onlineresource" might have a setting
"wms_onlineresource" "auto"

It would capture the url that was used for reading the GetCapabilities and place the reasonable parts of it  automatically into GetCapabilities response.

This option would serve also the development-test-production migration, but originally I had another use for it in my mind. It is possible to do wonderful things with Mapserver variables and runtime substitution but standard WMS clients do not support using the vendor options easily. But imagine that user reads GetCapabilities as

http://server.org/cgi-bin/mapserver_wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities&variable1=foo&variable2=bar
and then the GetMap onlineresource in GetCapabilities would look like
http://server.org/cgi-bin/mapserver_wms?variable1=foo&variable2=bar

Standard compliant clients would pick the GetMap online resource from GetCapabilities and use it thereafter as base-URL for the GetMaps. Quantum GIS and OpenJUMP are really behaving this way but I do not know about the others.

As a result we would get nice possibilities for tailoring the WMS service, and even that would be done with a trick of transferring some vendor parameters into onlineResource, it is all acceptable according to the WMS standard.

-Jukka Rahkonen-


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Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] käyttäjän Daniel Morissette [dmorissette at mapgears.com] puolesta
Lähetetty: 25. tammikuuta 2012 16:39
Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Aihe: Re: RE [Polluriel potentiel] Re: [mapserver-users] Relative path's        in mapfile

On 12-01-25 9:01 AM, Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca wrote:
>
> How do you manage the server/domain name in the mapfile for
> wms_onlineressource when migrating from dev to prod environment.
> Per example,
> http://localhost:80/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAP
>
> Do we need to manually change localhost:80before migrating to prod?


There is no automated way to handle this, so yes you need to edit the
mapfile, or use a script to automate the replacement.

--
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000

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