[OpenLayers-Users] ProxyHost setup under JBoss + GeoServer

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0700, andydale wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am pretty new to using OpenLayers, and am now running into some issues.  
> 
> I can use OpenLayers with WMS layers from the GeoServer (war install) with
> out any problem.  The issue occurs when trying to use a WFS layer like
> below.  
> 
>    wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.WFS("WFS fixpoint", 
>    	"http://172.16.135.144:8080/geoserver/wfs?", 
>         {typename: "topp:fixpoint" ,maxfeatures: "100"}, 
>         {featureClass: OpenLayers.Feature.WFS} );
> 
> This layers in not drawn on the map, but causes no errors.  After seaching
> around on the net and forums i have discovered that i must set the
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost to get the WFS layer to be displayed, and have seen
> many examples such as this:
> 
>     OpenLayers.ProxyHost="/proxy/?url=";
> 
> The above will not work for me, how can i set the proxy host within JBoss. 
> The page i am using openlayers on is a .jsp (using jsf), packed inside a
> simple .war archive.  Has anybody managed to set up the ProxyHost under
> JBoss before ? Is it just a matter of packing something (python script ??)
> into my war archive ?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated   .

The best thing for you to do is probably to get the OpenLayers file
served from within GeoServer. So, your OpenLayers HTML should be at
http://172.16.135.144:8080/openlayers/ or whatever. Once you do that,
you don't need a proxyhost anymore. Anything else is going to be vastly
more complex.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta