problem invoking WCS: "no template"???

[Piero Cavalieri]

P.S. Maybe you have some template related keyword, in your map file, which doesn't make sense, in a WCS.

Bye
 Piero

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
Sent: mercoledì 10 ottobre 2007 18.06
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] problem invoking WCS: "no template"???

 
> I am trying to make the Web Coverage Service (WCS) feature work.
> However, GetCapabilies and GetCoverage requests both respond with
> "mapserv(): Web application error. No template provided."
> No doubt I have made some basic configuration error, but I 
> cannot find my problem. The Web Map Service (WMS) 
> functionality using the same mapfile does work.
> 
> Here are the parts of my mapfile that I believe are relevant to WCS:
> 
> # Added for WCS support
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>    NAME GEOTIFF
>    DRIVER "GDAL/GTiff"
>    MIMETYPE "image/tiff"
>    IMAGEMODE "BYTE"
>    EXTENSION "tif"
> END
> 
>    # TEST WCS feature
>    LAYER
>      NAME "airstiff"
>      TYPE RASTER
>      DUMP TRUE
>      METADATA
>        "wcs_title" "AIRS TIFF Coverage"
>        "wcs_nativeformat" "tiff"
>      END
>      STATUS off
>      PROJECTION
>        "init=epsg:4326"
>      END
>      DATA "/sivo/data/soar/airs/2007/01/04/12/bt.tiff"
>    END
> 
> NOTE: The same floating-point GeoTIFF (bt.tiff) is correctly 
> read and classified by the WMS component.
> 
> Is there something missing in my mapfile? This document:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wcs_server/#d45e65
> claims that four conditions must be satisfied, as I believe I 
> have done:
>        Data source is of raster type that is processed using 
> GDAL (e.g GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, ...)
>        LAYER NAME must be set
>        LAYER TYPE is RASTER
>        LAYER DUMP parameter set to TRUE
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Jeff DLB
> 

Jeff,

What does your request URL look like?  Did you include service=WCS in
the request?

..Tom