Database Reference
In-Depth Information
How it works...
Inthepreviousrecipe,youwereintroducedtothebasicconceptsoftheOGCWMS
and WFS standards using MapServer. In this recipe, you have done that using an-
other popular open-source web-mapping engine—GeoServer.
UnlikeMapServer,whichiswritteninCandcanbeusedfromwebserverssuchas
ApacheHTTP(httpd)orMicrosoft
Internet Information Server
(
IIS
)asaCGIpro-
gram, GeoServer is written in Java and needs a servlet container such as Apache
Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty to work.
GeoServernotonlyofferstheuserahighlyscalableandstandardweb-mappingen-
gineimplementation,butdoessowithaniceuserinterface,theWebAdministration
interface. Therefore, it is generally easier for a beginner to create WMS and WFS
services compared to MapServer, where it is necessary to master the mapfile syn-
tax.
TheGeoServerworkflowtocreateWMSandWFSservicesforaPostGISlayeristo
firstcreateaPostGISstore,whereyouneedtoassociatethemainPostGISconnec-
tionparameters(servername,schema,user,andsoon).Afterthestoreiscorrectly
