On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, John Brisbin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this mean that a single missing SLD file has brought down the WMS
> server???

It does. GeoServer is setup to "fail fast" instead of having you
discover two months
later that half of your data hasn't been available because of a data connection
or configuration problem.

To get to that error someone must have removed the sld file manually, something
we strongly discourage. The two supported ways to manage the configuration
are the web gui or the rest config interface.

In your case the layer ro305_wgs84 has been associated with that sld
style, which
then someone removed below GS feet.

I know that some people prefer to have issues like this hidden under the carpet
and have the code do a best effort to generate a valid capabilities
document instead.
It could be done, but you'd then have to check in the logs wheter the layers
are in order or not, telling apart exception caused by invalid requests from
actual failures due to invalid configuration.

This is a choice of philosofy, of approach to managing a production
instance, one
of those choices that normally finds people in opposite camps.
I guess it could become a configuration option (it's also a slippery
slope, after
caps people will start asking that in case the sld is missing we be more lenient
and use some default style, that a layer group displays only the layers
that are working and ignore the others, and so on...)

Cheers
Andrea

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