Getting ESRI to talk to my WMS

[Jason Grimes]

Thanks Jeff,

I didn't specify the "wms_srs" for each layer, just in the map object.
Maybe that is my problem, I will add it in to each layer.  Here is my
test map file...

MAP
        NAME "GINA_WMS_TEST"
                                                                                        EXTENT -120 38 -76 60

        DEBUG on

        IMAGETYPE JPG
        IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
        STATUS ON
        SIZE 600 400
        SYMBOLSET
"/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/landman/chameleon/etc/symbols.sym"

        SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/WMS"

        PROJECTION
                "init=epsg:4326"
        END

        WEB
                METADATA
                "wms_title"             "GINA WMS Test"
                "wms_onlineresource"
"https://phobos.gina.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/ginawms?"
                "wms_srs"               "EPSG:4326"
                "wms_abstract"          "GINA test WMS server"
                END
        END

#
# Start of layers
#

        LAYER
                NAME "State_of_Alaska_LL"
                STATUS on
                DATA "alaska-latlon.shp"
                TYPE LINE
                TEMPLATE "ttt_query.html"
                MAXSCALE 28000000.0
                MINSCALE 10.0

                PROJECTION
                        "init=epsg:4326"
                END

                METADATA
                        "wms_title"     "State_of_Alaska_LL"
                        "wms_abstract"  "Test Alaska state outline in
Lat-Lon projection."
                END
                CLASS
                        NAME "State_of_Alaska_LL"
                        SYMBOL 0
                        STYLE
                                COLOR 212 208 200
                        END
                END
        END
END

Jason

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:09, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> I just recently had to set up some data through WMS for some remote
> ArcGIS users.  I did not have to include any special parameters/metadata
> that i know of for the WMS server.  I did however add optional metadata
> for each layer, such as "wms_srs".  I used mapserv version 4.4.1.  maybe
> i got lucky :)
>
> maybe you could include a small test wms-server mapfile (that fails in
> arc) for everyone on the list.
>
>
> jeff
>
>
>
>
> Jason Grimes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have set up a WMS service on my local machine.  We would like to give
> > ArcGIS users access to the layers but it will not talk to the WMS
> > service.  I can get Jump to talk and of course MapServer/Chameleon also
> > talks with the service and no problems.  Is there a specific way in
> > which you have to set up the map file?  According to my research ArcGIS
> > will not connect up to WMS servers that use any other projection except
> > a Lat/Lon one. I re-projected some of our data using EPSG:4326 and setup
> > a map file with only this projection and ArcGIS will still not talk.  It
> > reads the capabilities just fine, but after that it will not contact the
> > server again.  I have watched the Apache logs and I can see the
> > capabilities request come through and then nothing.  I have also tried
> > other services like the DM Solutions demo here:
> >
> > http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap
> >
> > And it works fine with ArcGIS.  Maybe one of the DM Solutions guys could
> > point me in the right direction.  :)  Any help would be most appretiated
> > and if there is a way of having the WMS also work with meter based
> > projections (like Albers) at the same time would be great too.  Thanks,
> >
> > Jason
> >
>