problem with THREDDS server 4.0 beta

[Denis Nadeau]

Nathan,

Thanks for you quick answer. 

If I delete the file in the cache file, I guess it would reread my
catalog.xml.  

Could you tell me what directory this file is cached?  Is it this one:
work/Catalina/localhost/opendap

Regards,
Denis

Nathan Potter wrote:
>
>
> Dennis,
>
> Um... I suspect James' answer isn't addressing your problem. It is
> likely that the problem is probably with caching. Ethan Davis alerted
> me to it this week, and I have patched the Server4 code. Essentially
> the THREDDS responses are getting cached by your client and Server4 is
> erroneously reporting that the last modified date is remaining
> unchanged despite your alterations to the catalog files.
>
> We hope to have another beta release this week that will patch that
> and the problem you reported earlier regarding Tomcat hanging after a
> BES crash.
>
>
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:34 PM, James Gallagher wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Denis Nadeau wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have tried to play with the THREDDS catalog under
>>> content/opendap/cataolog.xml to add new datasets.
>>> It seems that the file is not read at all by opendap server 4.  When
>>> I click on the "HTML" link,  I can't get my catalog.xml to be parsed
>>> at all.
>>>
>>> Can anybody reproduce this?
>>>
>>> As well, can you explain to me what this variable is used for (in
>>> the BES.conf)?
>>> BES.Catalog.catalog.RootDirectory
>>
>> Dennis,
>>
>> The parameter BES.Catalog.catalog.RootDirectory is the root directory
>> of your data if your using THREDDS catalogs. The other
>> 'RootDirectory' parameter is used by sites which don't support
>> THREDDS (because the BES is used by the Earth System Grid project as
>> well, without the OLFS component). It's confusing, I know. I have a
>> ticket to make the comments in the default bes.conf file a little
>> more informative.
>>
>> Try this: Set your BES.Catalog.catalog.RootDirectory to the root of
>> your data and ignore the value of the other parameter (I believe it
>> has to have a value, but you can set it to /dev/null if you want) and
>> then see if your catalogs work. If not this maybe a question for
>> Nathan, the THRESS guru here.
>>
>> James
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Denis
>>>
>>> --Denis Nadeau
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>>>
>>
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-- 
Denis Nadeau
Goddard Earth Sciences Data & Information Services Center
Code 610.2
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Phone: (301) 614-5514
Fax:   (301) 614-5268
email: dnadeau at pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov
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