Development Environment Setup

Here we will guide you through the process of setting up a development environment so you can access our geoserver that is serving data.

OpenLayers

Apache Web Server

Before we can run any examples, we must set up a proxy so that requests from your domain match our WFS. Setting up a proxy is very simple and the details can be found here.

Running Examples

Solving Same Origin Policy Problem (or cross-site script)

"Same Origin Policy" is a security restriction for client (browser)-side scripting. (Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy). This policy make JS development tricky in developer's local machine. Here is how to solve the problem.  Helpful links are:

• http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost
• http://n2.nabble.com/GeoServer-Proxy-Extension-OpenLayers-td3998936.html

How to

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1. CGI script is in python. You may need to install python and change the header of the CGI script

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1. If proxy.cgi shows openlayers home page, it's working.

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1. Add your geoserver host name to allowedHosts list

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