[Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server

[Lowell Filak]

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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