Ciao Zac, long story short, you need to have the shapefile on the server filesystem rather than accessible via an HTTP URL.
Regards, Simone Giannecchini == Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK for more information. == Ing. Simone Giannecchini @simogeo Founder/Director GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it ------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:42 PM, zacstanley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello- > I'm new to geoserver. I'm trying to publish a simple vector shapefile. I > have created a workspace "LowerSMR_BedrockContours" and am now trying to > create a new data store. > > The shapefile "LowerSMR_BedrockContours.shp" is stored in a public > directory: > > http://www.cpenwater.com/LowerSMR_BedrockContours/ > > I'm using this directory as my location URL: > > http://www.cpenwater.com/LowerSMR_BedrockContours/LowerSMR_BedrockContours.shp > > When I do so I get the following error: > > Connection to resource failed: > > http://www.cpenwater.com/LowerSMR_BedrockContours/LowerSMR_BedrockContours.shp > > < > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5132307/Connection_to_resource_failed.jpg > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Zac Stanley > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Trying-to-Create-a-new-Data-Store-Connection-to-resource-failed-error-tp5132307.html > Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >
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