Hi, I need an easy to set up FTP server for GeoServer so that remote admins can upload data.
Alessio some time ago pointed me at Apache Mina FtpServer, and this tutorial shows how to create an embedded FTP server the easy way: http://mina.apache.org/ftpserver/embedding-ftpserver-in-5-minutes.html GeoSolutions actually added that into GeoBatch already. Alessio, Simone, is it working fine for you? I guess this would be a contribution of general interest. Yes, setting up a stand alone FTP server for the same purpose is not hard, but requires deciding which one you want to use platform per platform, configuring it, creating the necessary users (a separate set from GeoServer own users), and making sure the files created by the server can be read (and eventually written) by GeoServer. The idea of the embedded module is that you drop it in and it just start serving the data directory contents to all the GS users that have administration powers (since you need to be able to configure the data afterwards anyways). Basically a no options easy install that gets you going in 5 minutes. Given it's a full fledged FTP server we also get much better service than just file upload in forms, for example, no limit on file sizes, restartable services, easy multiple uploads, and a ton of existing clients on various platforms that can access it directly. So, opinions? Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
