[mapserver-users] How to configure mapserver as a tile server?
Stephen Woodbridge
woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Sat May 25 20:51:50 PDT 2013
On 5/25/2013 11:08 PM, Hishan Melanga wrote:
> 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.
You would replace example.com with your host name.
Also note the blue (+] buttom in the upper right of the demo map page,
open this is you have multiple services or tilesets defined and you can
select that one you want to view.
Here is my demo page that has data for the US and is pulling tiles from
my mapcache instance.
http://imaptools.com:8080/demo/tiger-demo2.html
-Steve
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.__com
> <mailto: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.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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