Hello again Dane. Looks like I got the standalone WSGI server working!!! Phew!!! Now I know my installation works? What do I have to do for the server to respond to requests like this?
http://greenstreamsa.com/wms.py?width=520&height=260&styles=Plain&bgcolor=0x a0acb8&request=GetMap&version=1.1.1&format=image/png&layers=world&srs=EPSG:4 326&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&bbox=-179,-58.8110470437,179,7 2.092336216 Many Many thanks. An excited newbie!!!!! From: Dane Springmeyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:15 AM To: Jome Akpoduado Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mapnik-users] My WMS server is running.... what next? 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. _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
_______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
