You might want to check the WMS Server howto doc, as well as the MapServer OGC
Web Services workshop (http://ms-ogc-workshop.maptools.org/), which has
examples of standing up WMS/WFS/WCS/SOS, etc.
>From the client side, you would have to change the base URL of the new WMS
>(assuming the layer names would be the same).
..Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Justin Bailey
Sent: Tue 09-Dec-08 12:03
To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver
Hi list,
I hope I can get some assistance on a matter of some urgency. Our organization
has been putting the finishing touches on an application that is supposed to be
released by the end of the year. Unexpectedly, it did not pass license review,
because it used Geoserver, which is GPL-licensed. Since Mapserver has a more
permissive license, and is also WMS-compatible, the decision was made to switch
to Mapserver. It now falls to me, as the junior developer, to do a
last-minute switchover. Unfortunately I come to this task knowing nothing
about either Geoserver *or* Mapserver.
After some difficulty I succeeded in getting Mapserver running on our existing
Tomcat server, but I have not been able to figure out how to convert the
Geoserver data. I have made some encouraging steps on the Mapserver tutorial
but I still know nothing about Geoserver, and I am running out of time. I need
to solve this problem by the end of this week if possible, or by the end of
next week at the absolute latest.
So, I have two questions:
1) Is there a utility I could download that can convert a Geoserver
installation to Mapserver?
-- or --
2) I *think* (crossing fingers) that the only thing I need to do, on the
application side, is to convert the following Javascript call...
var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("World", "geoserver/wms?service=wms",
{layers: 'countries', bgcolor: 0x000055});
...into its equivalent Mapserver call. There are four countries.* files in the
geoserver repository:
countries.dbf
countries.prj
countries.shp
countries.shx
How do I create countries.map to serve these files, and what mapserv.exe call
should I use?
Many thanks for any and all assistance.
Justin
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