[Mapserver-users] Loading data from another server

[Jeff L.]

Thanks Lowel for your answer. Could you please point me to how to do that ? 
a document or an url about accessing remote data would be great.

Jeff Lacoste


>From: "Lowell Filak"<lfilak at medinaco.org>
>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 12:05:50 -0400
>
>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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