[qgis-qwc2] Connections to external WMS servers fails

[Roman Meier]

Hi Sandro,

Thanks for your input!

Deleting the following line from config.json fixed it for me:
"proxyServiceUrl": "http://localhost:5000/",

Kind regards,
Roman

> Hi Roman
>
> For development purposes, you can use browser addons which inject
> access-control-allow-origin headers to the requests (just look for CORS
> addons).
>
> For production purposes, if it is a service under your control, either
> have it run on the same origin as QWC2 (origin meaning protocol, domain
> and port), or have the webserver serving your WMS add appropriate
> access-control-allow-origin headers. If it not a service under your
> control, you'll have to add a proxy service in between which adds these
> headers.
>
> You'll however generally want to read up on the topic.
>
> Best
>
> Sandro
>
> On 03.01.20 12:44, Roman Meier wrote:
>> Hi Sandro,
>>
>> Yep, seems you are right. The console issues to following:
>>
>> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading
>> the
>> remote resource at
>> http://localhost:5000/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwms.geo.admin.ch%3Fservice%3DWMS%26request%3DGetCapabilities.
>> (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix this?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Roman
>>
>>> Hi Roman
>>>
>>> This is likely a CORS issue, check the developer console output of your
>>> browser. If not, if you can please post a link to the service you are
>>> attempting to use.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Sandro
>>>
>>> On 03.01.20 11:07, Roman Meier wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> A few days ago I installed the QWC 2 demo app on my server according
>>>> to
>>>> the documentation provided on github
>>>> (gwc2-demo-app/doc/QWC2_Documentation.md).
>>>>
>>>> The installation went smoothly and the development application runs
>>>> nicely.
>>>>
>>>> I then tried to connect to external wms services using "Import layer".
>>>> However, none of the services seems to respond and consequently no
>>>> layers
>>>> get listed.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Roman
>>>>
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