[OpenLayers-Users] GeoServer Proxy Extension OpenLayers

[Roald de Wit]

Hi stash,

I could be mistaken, but the GS ProxyExtension is not going to help you 
if you don't serve your OL web app from the same domain (localhost:8080 
in your case, IIRC). Can you give a bit more information on what your 
setup looks like? Do you use Apache for example or another web server? 
Does GS run by itself or in Tomcat for example?

Have you ever tried downloading an OL 2.8 zip file, extracting it 
somewhere in your document root in Apache (for example) and run the OL 
examples, WFS ones in particular? Because if those work, the proxy.cgi 
in the examples dir works. You can then add 'localhost:8080' to 
allowedHosts (in proxy.cgi) and try your app from that directory. Once 
that works, you can move your app somewhere else and put proxy.cgi in a 
better place and get it to work.

Regards, Roald

stash wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to show some data with a wfs in openlayers. I already know, that i
> have to configure a proxy that I can do this. With geoserver you have the
> opportunity to install a plugin called ProxyExtension, to do exactly this.
>
> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+Proxy+Extension
>
> I installed the plugin and the example with the redirect to google works
> (http://[your_geoserver_domain]/geoserver/rest/proxy?url=http://www.google.com)
> --> the proxy is installed correctly.
>
> But now there are the next problems.
>
> 1. What for a hostname do i have to configure (Do i have to enter the ip of
> my pc, or the ip of the geoserver pc, ...?)
>
> 2. Do I have to set up a Openlayers.proxyhost in my program. How would this
> look like in my case?
>
> I hope someone can help me with this problem. I already tried so many
> different things, but nothing worked. (Either I get no response text in
> firebug or I get a bad request)
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> Regards
> stash
>