Configuring MapServer .MAP files for WMS requests

Owned by Kim Stimpson
Last updated: 25 Sept, 2015 by Andrew Bailey
2 min read

TileCache works with WMS servers, in order for MapServer to be able to serve WMS responses correctly there needs to be some additions to the .MAP files used. The example below shows the required settings that need to be added:

MAP
    NAME "RasterMap"                              
    CONFIG "PROJ_LIB" "D:\mapserver\cgi-bin5.4\proj\nad"      
    PROJECTION                                                      
       "init=epsg:27700"                                            
    END  
    WEB
        METADATA
            WMS_TITLE "Cleveland Police"    
            AUTHOR "Astun Technology"
			"ows_enable_request" "*"
        END
    END    
   LAYER
        METADATA
            WMS_TITLE "Cleveland Police Area @ 250K"      
        END
    END
END

Essentially MAP has to have NAME, CONFIG and PROJECTION settings and WEB and all LAYERs need to have a METADATA setting.

In WEB, METADATA has WMS_TITLE and AUTHOR settings and for LAYERs it's just WMS_TITLE.