On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Mckeane <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Mr. Scarr, > I am faced with the same situation in which I am able to reference a > shape file that is not in the geoserver's data directory. However, in order > to preview the shape file I would have to manually create the layers and > publish it for the file from the add a new resource section under layers > section of the Geoserver's UI. If the files are uploaded into the data > directory the feature types are automatically created. The same applies for > geotiff's that are refernced externally using the external.geotiff? > examples. Since shapefiles in geoserver does not support external.shp (I was > told). > > If there is any further information that could help me solve this problem > and applying this patch please could you relay such. > Thank you in advance
As far as I know it's working as advertised: when you manually create a feature type by PUT you also have to manually create the layer. Uploading the shapefile is probably giving the two in one shot as a convenience Cheers Andrea -- ----------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
