[mapserver-users] How to configure mapserver as a tile server?

Hishan Melanga hishanm at gmail.com
Fri May 24 22:12:13 PDT 2013


Thanks. I installed mapcahe and started to learn about the xml
configuration file. Reading http://mapserver.org/mapcache/config.html as a
start. Hope it is the first thing that I should do.


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> wrote:

> On 5/24/2013 10:06 PM, Hishan Melanga wrote:
>
>> I have a working mapserver and I can view my map using
>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/**mapserv?map=/path/to/map&mode=**
>> browse&template=openlayers&**layers=all<http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/path/to/map&mode=browse&template=openlayers&layers=all>
>> .
>> Now I want to give out those data to public as tiles giving a single URL
>> such as tile.myserver.org <http://tile.myproxy.org/>. How can I achieve
>>
>> this using Mapserver? What is the place to start? What tutorials I have
>> to read? I've read that Mapserver has a tile mode
>> <http://mapserver.org/output/**tile_mode.html<http://mapserver.org/output/tile_mode.html>
>> >.
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> mapcache it the tile server for mapserver. So you will want to look at
> that. The basic scenario is this:
>
> 1. setup mapserver as a WMS server
> 2. build and install mapcache as an apache module
> 3. setup a mapcache.xml to describe you WMS server, and your cache.
>    make sure you configure the demo service initially for testing
>    you can disable it later if you want
> 4. restart apache
> 5. http://example.com/mapcache/**demo <http://example.com/mapcache/demo>
>
> whenever you change your mapcache.xml you need to start apache so it reads
> your changes.
>
> -Steve W
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