[Geoserver-users] Shapefile Output

I'm running 1.3.0 and its going great. Geoserver is going to really help us distribute data more efficiently.

I noticed that it is capable of outputting Shapefiles in the FAQ. So, I tried this string,

http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs?request=getfeature&service=wfs&version=1.0.0&typename=states&outputformat=SHAPE

and got this back:

<ServiceException>
output format: SHAPE not supported by geoserver
</ServiceException>

any ideas?

On a side note, do you have to have root access to the server to install Geoserver? For example, if I had linux shared hosting account, is there a way to install Geoserver at the user end?

Take care,

Ken

Ken,

You need to change the output format parameter to outputformat=SHAPE-ZIP

With regards to installing under Linux, we have a user account with a Tomcat installation and we deploy the Geoserver WAR file there. So in our case no root access is needed.

Duncan

Ken Hudak wrote:

I'm running 1.3.0 and its going great. Geoserver is going to really help us distribute data more efficiently.

I noticed that it is capable of outputting Shapefiles in the FAQ. So, I tried this string,

http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs?request=getfeature&service=wfs&version=1.0.0&typename=states&outputformat=SHAPE

and got this back:

<ServiceException>
output format: SHAPE not supported by geoserver </ServiceException>

any ideas?

On a side note, do you have to have root access to the server to install Geoserver? For example, if I had linux shared hosting account, is there a way to install Geoserver at the user end?

Take care,

Ken

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