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  • Introduction
    • What Is GeoWebCache?
    • Architecture
    • Community
    • Standalone vs. GeoServer-integrated
  • Installation
    • Installing Java and Tomcat
    • Installing GeoWebCache
    • Upgrading from a pre 1.4 release
  • Quickstart
    • View preconfigured layers
    • View layers from a WMS
    • Special cases
    • Additional information
  • Concepts
    • Tiles
    • Gridsets and Gridsubsets
    • Metatiles
    • Storage components
    • Operations
  • Configuration
    • Configuring Layers
    • Security
    • Storage
    • Enabling/Disabling Services
    • Disk Quotas
    • Reloading Configuration
  • Web Interface
    • Status Page
    • Demo Page
    • Seed Pages
  • Services
    • WMS - Web Map Service
    • WMS-C - WMS Tiling Clients
    • WMTS - Web Map Tiling Service
    • TMS - Tile Map Service
    • KML
    • Google Maps
    • Bing Maps
    • Mobile GMaps
    • Special HTTP Response Headers
  • REST API
    • Managing Layers through the REST API
    • Seeding and truncating through the REST API
    • Querying the running tasks
    • Terminating running tasks
    • Disk Quota REST API
    • Mass Truncation
    • Formats and representations
    • Authentication
    • Status codes
  • Production
    • Operating Environment
    • Hardware considerations
    • Operating system settings
    • Seeding and Truncating the Cache
    • Resource Allocation
    • Clustering
  • Troubleshooting
    • Configuration problems
    • Incorrect or broken tiles
    • Logging
    • Getting help
  • Development
    • Setting Up
    • Setting up Eclipse
    • Contributing patches
  • Frequently Asked Questions
 
GeoWebCache User Manual
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  • Configuring Layers

Configuring LayersΒΆ

This section will describe how to manually configure layers in GeoWebCache, as well as some basic configuration examples.

  • How to configure layers
    • Changing the location of geowebcache.xml
    • Tips for editing XML
    • Schema
  • Custom projections
    • Defining a projection
    • Associate a layer with the projection
  • Palettes
  • Parameter Filters
    • String filter
    • Numerical filter
    • Regular expression filter
  • Request Filter
  • Serving Layers From Pre-Cached ArcGIS Tiling Schemes
    • Features and Limitations
    • ArcGIS Tiling Scheme
    • Configuration
    • Alternative cache directory
    • OpenLayers Configuration
  • Using a Static Capabilities Document
  • Expiring tiles with GeoRSS
    • Reading a GeoRSS feed
  • Tile expiration
    • Server tile expiration
    • Client tile expiration
  • Gridsets and Gridsubsets
  • Selective zoom level caching
    • Configuration
    • Error checking
    • Interaction with seeding
    • Interaction with metatiling
  • Examples
    • Minimal configuration
    • Simple configuration
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