[mapserver-users] Using SLD and WMS with data comming from postgres

[Adrien Ducos]

Thanks to all it now works very nicely.

Adrien

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Yewondwossen Assefa <yassefa at dmsolutions.ca>
wrote:

> Adrien Ducos wrote:
>
>> Ok I found the error, it was on the sld itself: apparently mapserver can't
>> handle in the same rule a point symbolizer and a polygon symbolizer. So I
>> have to make 2 sld layers: one for my points and one for my polygons. It is
>> a pity since openlayers could handle this without any problem.
>>
>>
>  oops, saw this e-mail after I sent the previous.
>  In Mapserver, a layer can only be of one geometry type. So I think It
> makes sense that different types of symbolizers would not be applied to the
> same layer. In you case if you have a point and a polygon layer, you can
> still use one sld with 2  <NamedLayer> (which would correspond to your 2
> layers).
>
>  (there was no problem with the temp file since I gave a chmod access to
>> all users in this folder; but now I understand why I have so many temp files
>> in this directory).
>>
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Barend Kobben <kobben at itc.nl <mailto:
>> kobben at itc.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>    Did you check the SLD TMP file problem (from the thread Re: "SLD
>>    ignored /
>>    External Graphic ignored)" see excerpt below)?
>>
>>    ***snip***
>>    Using SLDs is dependent on the correct setting of the two settings
>>     IMAGEPATH  -- where the mapserver software puts the SLD and other
>>    temporary
>>    files
>>     IMAGEURL -- where the web browser and other http services pick them
>> up.
>>
>>    Setting these incorrectly, and more importantly their security setting
>>    incorrrectly, will normally give no problems, but when using SLDs
>>    (and also
>>    in other cases, eg. when chaining Mapserver to external WMS and WFS
>>    services), they will make MS malfunction, but SILENTLY (ie. No error
>>    messages).
>>
>>    Eg. in our set ups of a WMS with external SLD they are set as follows:
>>
>>    For  a *nix setup ( MacOSX) with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  Apache:
>>    WEB
>>       IMAGEPATH "/Users/kobben/Sites/ms_tmp/"
>>       IMAGEURL "http://localhost/~kobben/ms_tmp/<http://localhost/%7Ekobben/ms_tmp/>
>>    <http://localhost/%7Ekobben/ms_tmp/>"
>>
>>       #--------------------------------------------#
>>       METADATA
>>          [all your web metadata...]
>>       END #metadata
>>    END #web
>>
>>    For a Win box with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  IIS:
>>     IMAGEPATH "C:/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>>     IMAGEURL "http://geoserver.itc.nl/ms_tmp/"
>>
>>    The IMAGEPATh is a directory that is reacheable by Mapserver at this
>>    real
>>    location (in this case expressed as Unix BSD path on my MacOSX or as
>>     UNC
>>    path on Win) and that has read & write access set  for the Mapserver
>>    process. Eg. on the Winbox it should have write access for the
>> anonymous
>>    system service account under which Mapserver runs (usually something
>>    like
>>    SERVERNAME\IWAM_SERVERNAME).
>>
>>    You can test this by seeing if files with names like) are being
>>    created when
>>    you request the WMS with external SLD. If they are the IMAGEPATH
>> celarly
>>    works. Then test if you can point a browser to the IMAGEURL and pick
>>    up the
>>    tmp file. If that worsk the IMAGEURL is also OK. Now it should work...
>>
>>    Hope this helps.
>>
>>    --
>>    Barend Köbben
>>    International Institute for Geo-Information
>>    Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC)
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