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Revision as of 13:27, 4 January 2008
Constructing the URL
After a dataset has been installed, and the handler programs installed, you need to know what its address is. If you've tested the web server installation as in ( Chapter2), you know the beginning of the URLs that will point to data at your site.
(If you're using the DRDS Java server, see ( Section 4.3.3).)
Suppose your web server's document root is at:
/var/www/html/
And you are serving netCDF data that you've stored at:
/var/www/html/datasets/atlantic/cooldata.nc
Following the test URL in ( Chapter2), this would be the URL to use in a client.
http://yourmachine/cgi-bin/nph-dods/datasets/atlantic/cooldata.nc
Note that this URL will work for a DAP client, but not for a standard web browser. If you want to use a standard web browser to test your installation, read on, and also take a look at The OPeNDAP QuickStart Guide . See note
Constructing a OPeNDAP/JGOFS URL
Suppose that you have installed the OPeNDAP/JGOFS handler, as described above, on the machine test.opendap.org. And a partial listing of the the data objects dictionary contained the following definitions:
test0=def(/var/www/html/data/test0.data) s87_xbt=def(/var/www/html/data/xbt.catalog) s87_ctd=def(/var/www/html/data/ctd.catalog) htf=autoedges(/fronts/hatteras-to-florida/edges) htn=autoedges(/fronts/hatteras-to-nova-scotia/edges) glk=autoedges(/fronts/great-lakes/edges)
A URL that references the data object 's87_xbt' would look like:
http://test.opendap.org/cgi-bin/nph-dods/s87_xbt