Hi Steven, Assuming OpenLayers as your client, you have the choice of using either the WMS or WFS service. WMS supports serving spatial data as georeferenced raster images whereas WFS transports the raw spatial data. If using WFS OpenLayers will draw the features using vectors and client-side interaction with the drawn features is possible.
There are plenty of examples on the OpenLayers website which demonstrate the use of both WMS and WFS layers: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ To configure the OpenLayers client for your specific data layers it's often helpful to view the source of the GeoServer layer preview for the layer. If the website that will be displaying the map is not hosted on the same domain and port as your GeoServer instance you will also need to configure a proxy on the website domain that will relay the requests to GeoServer. There is information on the OpenLayers site on how to configure OpenLayers to use a proxy: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost Cheers Adam On 4/08/2010, at 5:12 AM, Steven Reid wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Geoserver and would like some basic help. I have installed the > program and have set up layers in a data store and workplace. I have checked > that they work using the layers preview and everything is fine. My problem > is though, I don't know what to do now. I have no idea how to link this to > my webpage, I have no idea about WMS and how to link the openlayers map that > you see in the preview to my website. Is there a step by step guide on how > to do this for a beginner! Any help would be fantastic. > > Apologies, for such a basic question, but I would really like to learn to use > this service. > > Thanks. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > MVA Consultancy Limited is a limited liability Company registered in England > and Wales, registration number: 3383212, registered address: First Floor, > Dukes Court, Duke Street, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5BH, United Kingdom. > > The information transmitted in this e-mail and any attached files is intended > only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > confidential and/or privileged material. Any opinions expressed in the > e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. Any > review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action > in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the > intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error you should > not copy it, > disclose its contents to anyone else or take any action based on it, please > contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
