[Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server

[Ed McNierney]

Jeff -

You need filesystem access to your data files, not just HTTP access.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff L. [mailto:nf10 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:53 AM
To: Ed McNierney; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server


Thanks Ed for your reply.
The data are in a web server while mapserver is running in another web 
server.

Jeff


>From: "Ed McNierney" <ed at topozone.com>
>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 11:48:55 -0400
>
>Jeff -
>
>Yes, the data can be in another location, but not one accessed via HTTP.  
>MapServer reads data files using regular filesystem I/O, so the SHAPEPATH 
>needs to point to a filesystem address (i.e. a local or network directory). 
>  If you have trouble with that, let us know what operating system you're 
>using and what kind of network access you have to the data server and we 
>can be more specific.
>
>	- Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
>North Chelmsford, MA  01863
>ed at topozone.com
>(978) 251-4242
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff L. [mailto:nf10 at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:13 AM
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server
>
>
>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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