The problem with that approach is that is the mapfile changes (a layer is added or the default status of a layer changes) then I also have to update mapcache config file. What i wonder is if there is a way to just modify the map and have Mapcache reflecting that change.
Pablo On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <[email protected] > wrote: > On 9/19/2013 3:02 PM, Pablo Cecconi wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been a Mapserver user for many years now but I'm new to Mapcache >> and I'm not sure whether it's possible to replicate a particular >> TileCache setup using Mapcache. >> What we have today is a number of mapfiles (with Mapserver 5.4) set up >> as WMS-C layers served with TileCache. We're migrating to Mapserver >> 6.2.1 and as it's incompatible with TileCache we expect to be able to >> replace it using Mapcache. >> In our current setup if I have a mapfile where a particular layer has >> STATUS OFF then TileCache will honor that status and not render the layer. >> I'd like to know whether it's possible to have MapCache work that way, >> that is, passing the map name as the LAYERS parameter of the WMS service >> and make it honor whatever STATUS a particular layer would have in the >> mapfile. >> > > I think the mapcache paradigm for this in mapcache works like this: > > tileset > name=foo > source=foo-source > > source > name=foo-source > map=/path/to/mapfile > layers=layer1,layer2,layers3,.**.. > > So you can configure which layers a tileset returns. I'm not sure how it > deals with the status off, but it will work if you define the list > explicitly. This also allow you to do this in the same mapcache.xml > > tileset > name=foo2 > source=foo-source2 > > source > name=foo-source2 > map=/path/to/mapfile > layers=streets,... > transparent=true > > I do this a lot when I have a subset of data like streets that I want to > render as an overly on a raster image > > -Steve W > ______________________________**_________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/mapserver-**users<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users> >
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