+1 That is very cool Andrea. Indeed if FTP is starting to be a staging area for WFS results then it makes a lot of sense as well.
jody On 01/06/2010, at 2:04 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
