[mapserver-users] How to configure mapserver as a tile server?
Hishan Melanga
hishanm at gmail.com
Sat May 25 20:08:36 PDT 2013
What is the link to access the tiles in web browser if I used your .xml as
the configuration? Is it still http://example.com/mapcache/demo or
something else.
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> wrote:
> So the way this works is:
>
> browser <----> mapcache <----> mapserver_wms
>
> So look at the demo page if you have mapcache.xml configured then you
> should see a simple OpenLayers application that pulls tiles from mapcache.
>
> your mapcache.xml needs look something like this. The referrences in the
> source block are explicit references to names in my mapfile. Obviously
> parameter values need to be change for your server and mapfile.
>
> -Steve
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mapcache>
> <metadata>
> <title>iMaptools mapcache service</title>
> <abstract>Contains various services for iMaptools maps</abstract>
> </metadata>
>
> <cache name="disk" type="disk">
> <base>/u/mapcache</base>
> <symlink_blank/>
> </cache>
>
> <source name="tiger2011" type="wms">
> <getmap>
> <params>
> <FORMAT>image/png</FORMAT>
> <MAP_IMAGETYPE>agg_qn</MAP_**IMAGETYPE>
> <LAYERS>Tiger_2011</LAYERS>
> <MAP>/u/data/tiger2011-maps/**tiger2011-mc.map</MAP>
> </params>
> </getmap>
>
> <http>
> <url>http://localhost/cgi-bin/**mapserv-60<http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv-60>
> </url>
> </http>
> </source>
>
> <format name="PNGQ_FAST" type="PNG">
> <compression>fast</**compression>
> <colors>256</colors>
> </format>
>
> <tileset name="tiger-base">
> <source>tiger2011</source>
> <cache>disk</cache>
> <grid>WGS84</grid>
> <grid>g</grid>
> <format>PNGQ_FAST</format>
> <metatile>5 5</metatile>
> <!-- metabuffer must be the abs() of what is in the mapfile -->
> <metabuffer>20</metabuffer>
> <expires>3600</expires>
> </tileset>
>
> <default_format>PNGQ_FAST</**default_format>
>
> <service type="wms" enabled="true">
> <full_wms>assemble</full_wms>
> <resample_mode>bilinear</**resample_mode>
> <format>PNGQ_FAST</format>
> <maxsize>4096</maxsize>
> </service>
> <service type="wmts" enabled="true"/>
> <service type="tms" enabled="true"/>
> <service type="kml" enabled="true"/>
> <service type="gmaps" enabled="true"/>
> <service type="ve" enabled="true"/>
> <service type="demo" enabled="true"/>
>
> <errors>report</errors>
> <lock_dir>/tmp</lock_dir>
>
> </mapcache>
>
>
>
> On 5/25/2013 9:47 AM, Hishan Melanga wrote:
>
>> ok. Now I have http://example.com/mapcache/**demo<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
>> <mailto: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<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 <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.**com<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>
>> <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.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>
>>
>> <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>
>>
>> <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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