[OpenLayers-Users] openMNND demo

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:06:21PM +1000, bradleyspencer wrote:
> So I am told that this is cross domain accessing that will not work via JS
> unless the application first goes via a proxy server. So I am trying to set
> up a proxy server on my web server that my application will refer to that is
> not a JS application.
> 
> Does that sound right to you?

Yep.

> So when I loaded the example one it was a Python script which I did not have
> installed and know nothing about. 

Understood. We have not made it a priority to document this, because
there are dozens (literally) of server combinations we have presented
with, and we can solve little more than a fraction of them. The Python
CGI is designed to be an example for someone with coding experience to
move forward from: it 'works fr me', in that I can install it on any of
my servers (because I have Python installed) and not worry about it.

> I thought that it would be easy to
> configure Apache to be a Forward Proxy but am having difficulty there too. I
> am an application bloke not a systems bloke so need some help.

Using Apache as a proxy -- typically under mod_proxy -- is how I'd go
about this. dev.openlayers.org/geoserver actually runs through a proxy
to another machine which runs geoserver (though it's down at the moment)
-- I recommend starting with mod_proxy documentation.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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