+1

also, my vote does not count

2010/6/1 Jody Garnett <[email protected]>

> +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.
> >
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