Re: THREDDS WCS Server for Washington Univ. in St. Louis

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you must enable the wcs service, see:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/ThreddsConfigXMLFile.html#WCS

Ed Fialkowski wrote:
> Hi John, I work with Stefan Falke and Rudi Husar at Wash. U. and we're
> interested in using the THREDDS WCS Server.
> I have thredds and tomcat up and running.  I can browse the default
> catalog that loads from server:8080/thredds, but I'm having issues with
> the WCS side of it.
> 
> When I view server:8080/thredds/wcs, I get a 403 - service forbidden
> error report, and the same for any /wcs/ requests I try.
> type Status report
> message Service not supported
> description Access to the specified resource (Service not supported) has
> been forbidden.
> 
> I have added the wcs service to the default catalog:
>   <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="/thredds/wcs/"
> suffix="?request=GetCapabilities&version=1.0.0&service=WCS "/>
>     <datasetRoot path="testwcs" dirLocation="/data/wcs/" />
>   </service>
> 
> located in thredds/WEB-INF/initialContent/, but I'm just not sure what
> else to do to enable the WCS server.
> I've checked the permissioning for the wcs directories, and I don't see
> why it would be 'forbidden' when the rest of the data directories are not.
> I'm not extremely familiar with tomcat, so I'm not real sure what to do
> about a service forbidden.
> 
> If you have some time, can you think of anything that might help?
> Thanks very much.
> -Ed Fialkowski