[OPeNDAP #TWP-306970]: DODS on Windows XP
Ethan Davis
edavis at unidata.ucar.edu
Tue Sep 5 21:07:43 PDT 2006
Hi all,
The page Roland points to is a bit out of date. Sorry about that; I'll
have to fix that tomorrow. Just wanted to give an up to date link
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/#TDS
Ethan
Roland Schweitzer wrote:
> David,
>
> Peter Cornillon wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2006, at 9:43 PM, David Holland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ... It is the software located at
>>> http://www.opendap.org/winPort.html that I
>>> am working on. I am not specifically trying to use the Matlab interface
>>> yet. I just want to serve a NetCDF file from my PC running Windows
>>> XP so
>>> that the data file can be read by a Live-Access-Server (which is
>>> running on
>>> another machine elsewhere). I am under the impression that to accomplish
>>
>>> this goal that I need to have DODS software running on my Windows XP
>>> platform ....
>>
> A simple solution to your problem is to use the THREDDS data server
> running under Tomcat to serve your netCDF files. Tomcat can be
> installed under XP using a Windows installer package from
> tomcat.apache.org. Once you have Tomcat running on your PC, grab the
> TDS
> (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/server/ServerStatus.html)
> and install it under your Tomcat installation following their
> installation instructions. This is a complete and robust solution for
> serving netCDF files via OPeNDAP from a Windows XP box. I use this
> setup everyday for my development work, but it would not be my first
> choice for a server platform for an operational server.
>
> Roland
>
>>
>> Yup, you do. There has not been much call for OPeNDAP servers on PC
>> machines, so I'm not sure what the state of that is. Either Rob, Dan
>> Holloway or James Gallagher can provide more input on this.
>>
>> Are there others on the e-mail list who would like to see a netCDF
>> server for Windows machines? If there is sufficient interest in this
>> and it is not available now, we should be able to set you up pretty
>> quickly.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> p.s. What kind of data are you serving?
>>
>> p.p.s. Are you using your rotating table?
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> David Michael Holland Title: Assoc Prof Math/Dir CAOS
>>> Courant Institute of Math. Sci. Office: (212) 998-3245
>>> New York University Cell: (917) 520-8570
>>> Room 929 Lab: (212) 998-3271
>>> 251 Mercer St., MC-0711 Email: holland at cims.nyu.edu
>>> <mailto:holland at cims.nyu.edu>
>>> New York, NY 10012 USA Web: http://efdl.cims.nyu.edu/
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: Peter Cornillon [mailto:pcornillon at gso.uri.edu]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:38 PM
>>> To: holland at cims.nyu.edu <mailto:holland at cims.nyu.edu>
>>> Cc: Tech DODS; Robert Morris
>>> Subject: Re: [OPeNDAP #TWP-306970]: DODS on Windows XP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> On Sep 5, 2006, at 8:11 PM, David Holland wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> I hope all goes well with you. I have a question. I am
>>> trying to install
>>> DODS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When you say that you are installing DODS on your PC, what exactly
>>> do you mean by DODS? Are you trying to run the Matlab client now called
>>> loaddap?
>>>
>>> I've copied Rob Morris on this message. He's the guy who wrote out
>>> PC version of OPeNDAP (the new name for DODS stuff) software. The
>>> stuff that
>>> he wrote is for Win32. I think that works with a number of different
>>> Windows
>>> operating systems, but I'm not a Windows guy, so am not sure. I also
>>> copied
>>> the technical e-mail list, but it may not go through; the name has
>>> changed
>>> on that as well and I'm not sure if I can send messages to the list
>>> - old or
>>> new.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> on my PC running Windows XP and I was wondering if you are
>>> familiar
>>> with anyone who has done this successfully and who could
>>> profice me details?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Cheers, David
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> David Michael Holland Title: Assoc Prof Math/Dir CAOS
>>> Courant Institute of Math. Sci. Office: (212) 998-3245
>>> New York University Cell: (917) 520-8570
>>> Room 929 Lab: (212) 998-3271
>>> 251 Mercer St., MC-0711 Email: holland at cims.nyu.edu
>>> <mailto:holland at cims.nyu.edu>
>>> New York, NY 10012 USA Web: http://efdl.cims.nyu.edu/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Unidata OPeNDAP/DODS Support
>>> [mailto:support-opendap at laraine.unidata.ucar.edu]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:14 PM
>>> To: holland at cims.nyu.edu <mailto:holland at cims.nyu.edu>
>>> Cc: support-opendap at laraine.unidata.ucar.edu
>>> <mailto:support-opendap at laraine.unidata.ucar.edu>
>>> Subject: [OPeNDAP #TWP-306970]: DODS on Windows XP
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to run DODS on my Windows XP
>>> machine. I have
>>>
>>> Apache 2.0
>>>
>>> installed and also Active Perl. I have
>>> downloaded the
>>>
>>> DodsW32.exe and
>>>
>>> installed it. I placed a file 'test.nc' in
>>> my DocumentRoot
>>>
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> When I give my web browser the URL:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://efdl.cims.nyu.edu:81/cgi-bin/nph-dods/test.nc.html
>>>
>>> I get "Error building the DODS dataset query
>>> form
>>>
>>> : Empty reply from server".
>>>
>>> Any thoughts how to fix this? Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> David,
>>> I check the version and info command from my local
>>> browser, and it works. Not sure what is going on on
>>> the web server.
>>> You can take a look the access log and error log of
>>> the web
>>> server to see if there is any information there.
>>>
>>> Yuan
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers, David
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> David Michael Holland Title: Assoc Prof
>>> Math/Dir CAOS
>>> Courant Institute of Math. Sci. Office:
>>> (212) 998-3245
>>> New York University Cell: (917) 520-8570
>>> Room 929 Lab: (212) 998-3271
>>> 251 Mercer St., MC-0711 Email:
>>> holland at cims.nyu.edu <mailto:holland at cims.nyu.edu>
>>> New York, NY 10012 USA Web:
>>> http://efdl.cims.nyu.edu/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ticket Details
>>> ==================
>>> Ticket ID: TWP-306970
>>> Department: Support OPeNDAP
>>> Priority: Normal
>>> Status: Open
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Peter Cornillon
>>>
>>> Graduate School of Oceanography - Telephone: (401) 874-6283
>>>
>>> University of Rhode Island - Fax: (401) 874-6728
>>>
>>> Narragansett, RI 02882 - E-mail: pcornillon at gso.uri.edu
>>> <mailto:pcornillon at gso.uri.edu>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Peter Cornillon
>>
>> Graduate School of Oceanography - Telephone: (401) 874-6283
>>
>> University of Rhode Island - Fax:
>> (401) 874-6728
>>
>> Narragansett, RI 02882 - E-mail:
>> pcornillon at gso.uri.edu <mailto:pcornillon at gso.uri.edu>
>>
>>
>
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Ethan R. Davis Telephone: (303) 497-8155
Software Engineer Fax: (303) 497-8690
UCAR Unidata Program Center E-mail: edavis at ucar.edu
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