[thredds] THREDDS & WCS

Roy Mendelssohn Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov
Thu Oct 18 10:49:31 MDT 2007


Forgot to ask - can you send an sample catalog.xml that sets up WCS  
on motherlode so I can compare.

Thanks,

-Roy
On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:

> Hi John:
>
> I am having problems with WCS as we are testing 3.16.19.  We made  
> the changes in the thredds config file, so the service is running,  
> and I get a return on the getcapabilities request, but it doesn't  
> contain the coverage itself and therefore all other requests break  
> down.  Has the info that needs to be in the catalog.xml changed.   
> It would seem so if I compare:
>
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tutorial/ 
> ConfigCatalogs.html
>
> with
>
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/WCS.html
>
> It is unclear on the last page which that info is required.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy
>
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, John Caron wrote:
>
>>
>> My apologies, this was poorly documented.
>>
>> WCS is turned off by default for security reasons, and must be  
>> turned on in the threddsConfig.xml file:
>>
>>  <WCS>
>>     <allow>true</allow>
>>     <dir>/temp/ncache/</dir>
>>     <scour>15 min</scour>
>>     <maxAge>30 min</maxAge>
>>   </WCS>
>>
>>
>> This page has been updated now:
>>
>>  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/WCS.html
>>
>> which references:
>>
>>  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/ 
>> ThreddsConfigXMLFile.html#WCS
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> Rochelle.O'Hagan at csiro.au wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> I had set up the catalog differently. I have now changed it to  
>>> what you
>>> advised, but still get the "The requested resource () is not  
>>> available."
>>> response.
>>>
>>> I can get coverages back from motherlode.ucar.edu, but not from the
>>> server I set up for testing. Is this likely to be something wrong  
>>> with
>>> my setup of the server? Does the WCS part of the THREDDS server  
>>> require
>>> the netCDF subset service, OpenDAP server or nj22? I notice that the
>>> <nj22Config> element is commented out in the threddsConfig.xml file.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>
>>> Rochelle O'Hagan
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Caron [mailto:caron at unidata.ucar.edu]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2007 2:52 AM
>>> To: O'Hagan, Rochelle (CLW, Black Mountain)
>>> Cc: thredds at unidata.ucar.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [thredds] THREDDS & WCS
>>>
>>> Hi Rochelle:
>>>
>>> Rochelle.O'Hagan at csiro.au wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm just starting to use THREDDS (v3.16) and am having problems  
>>>> using
>>>> the WCS functionality. I can make GetCapabilities &  
>>>> DescribeCoverage
>>>> requests successfully, but can't get GetCoverage to work at all.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried with the example data (testData & wcsExample) and with a
>>> data
>>>> catalog I've set up myself, but always get back a message "The
>>> requested
>>>> resource () is not available."
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to all this sort of thing, so is there something I'm  
>>>> missing?
>>>> The GetCoverage request is below:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://localhost:8080/thredds/wcs/galeon/ocean.nc? 
>>> request=GetCoverage&ve
>>> rsion=1.0.0&service=WCS&coverage=u_sfc&format=GeoTIFF&time=2005-03-1 
>>> 7T00
>>>> :00:00Z&crs=EPSG:4326
>>>
>>> where did you get that URL?
>>>
>>> im guessing it should be:
>>>
>>>   http://localhost:8080/thredds/wcs/galeon/testdata/ocean.nc? etc
>>>
>>> John
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