[mapguide-users] Connecting to remote files using mapagent [please help]

Mansoureh Sadrykia m_sadrykia at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 23 03:02:36 EDT 2007


I'm using MGOS 1.1, Is there something similar or I shall  install MGOS 1.2.
   
  By the way would you please explain me how are the IP addresses of different servers are defined when we add servers in manage servers in mg admin site?
   
  Jackie Ng <jackie.ng at aecsystems.com.au> wrote:
  
Are you using MGOS 1.2? This is a new feature of that version.

- Jackie


Mansoureh Sadrykia wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your reply Jackie,
> 
> 3. Unfortunately I couldn't find "configure external files" in mg site
> administrator. please tell me where it is, 
> 
> second, Is there a way to share and access shp file in LAN network
> without using mg studio?
> 
> Thanks once again,
> 
> Jackie Ng wrote:
> 
> 1. By network, I mean a LAN that is correct.
> 2. I don't quite understand this question.
> 3. In the Site Administrator. Go to the "Add Alias" under "Configure
> external files". In there add your alias and external file path.
> 
> 
> Mansoureh Sadrykia wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jackie,
>> 
>> 1. You asked if the remote computer is on the same network as the
>> mapguide server; Do You mean a "LAN", by "network" or
>> you mean the servers that we add in mapguide site administrator? You
>> know,
>> in my case the remote computers don't have mapguide installed.
>> 2. Actually I can't add new servers in mapguide site adminstrator,
>> and I guess that I make a mistake in defining IP addresses. Would you
>> Please explain me how I can give IP addresses to different computers as
>> different servers?
>> 
>> 3.Would you please explain me more about how to create an unmanaged alias
>> in the 
>> MapGuide Site Administrator to the network share? 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> connecting to remote files using mapguide, please help
>> 
>> Jackie Ng wrote:
>> 
>> Is the remote computer on the same network as the mapguide server? Are
>> the
>> shp files on a network share? If so you can create an unmanaged alias in
>> the
>> MapGuide Site Administrator to that network share, and be able to refer
>> to
>> that alias in your resource documents.
>> 
>> For example if your shp files are located at \\server\shp you can create
>> an
>> alias "SERVER_SHP" that you can then refer to in your resource xml
>> documents
>> as %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[SERVER_SHP]%
>> 
>> So if you have a shp file called foo.shp in that network share you can
>> create a feature source document that refers to it by creating a document
>> that look like something below:
>> 
>> 
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
>> 
>> OSGeo.SHP
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> DefaultFileLocation
>> %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[SERVER_SHP]%foo.shp
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TemporaryFileLocation
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> - Jackie
>> 
>> 
>> Mansoureh Sadrykia wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi List!
>>> 
>>> I intend to use mapagent to connect to shp files in a remote computer
>>> and decided to introduce the files' address, in the xml that I use in
>>> mapagent as the "content". Is it possible to introduce an IP address for
>>> the directory of shp files? Can map agent follow such an address and
>>> find
>>> the files?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance for your help; 
>>> 
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