Hello Jome,
Glad you are excited about getting started. Sounds like you've made
some great progress so far.
Sorry about the lack of step by step documentation for WMS. If you
continue to post places you get stuck we can surely provide tips as
you go along. You might also consider stopping by the #mapnik room on
irc.freenode.net.
As far as the problem you describe below: Can you say a bit more about
how you are making the Http request? What is the full URL/Query
String? Usually one would use a client like OpenLayers to
automatically create the request once the server is set up properly.
To confirm the server is set up you should simply be able to go to the
url where you have exposed it without providing any query string and
you'll get a welcome message like this:
http://wms.dbsgeo.com/
If you are not yet using the Firebug extension to Mozilla Firefox that
is a great way of debugging requests and responses, once you start
adding layer and other parameters.
Also, when I am configuring the WMS server I always first run in
'WSGI' Standalone mode so that I don't have to dig through apache logs
to figure out potential configuration problems. Using the standalone
WSGI setup as a development server launched in a terminal process all
errors simply print to the screen.
See: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OgcServer#SampleConfigurations
Hope that helps. Feel free to shoot more questions as you have them.
Dane
On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Jome Akpoduado wrote:
Hello,
Please let me establish a baseline before I proceed. I got excited
about Mapnik when I saw what it could achieve via the Drupal WMS
client, Nice Map. I decided to build my own WMS server for my Drupal
websites and I think I’ve gotten way over my head on this. I’ve no
experience in python (but that has been fast changing in the last
few days) but I managed to get Mapnik installed on my server
(running Ubuntu 8.10) and followed the available tutorials on
creating first maps and I think I passed that hurdle so far.
However, where I get stumped is when I make an http request for a
map (much like what the Nice map Drupal module would do) and nothing
just happens.
I’ve searched and scoured through sites looking for any good
tutorials that could help an enthusiastic newbie like me get off the
ground with even the simplest of external map requests. Can anyone
help out or point me to good enough documentation that us mere
mortals can follow?
Many thanks.
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