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

Hishan Melanga hishanm at gmail.com
Sat May 25 06:47:32 PDT 2013


ok. Now I have http://example.com/mapcache/demo working. But how can I get
my mapserver's wms connect to it.


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Hishan Melanga <hishanm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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