[WMS] Need a way to prevent layers from being served via WMS

[dmorissette]

Jean-Francois.Doyon@ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> Yup, that is correct, right now, you can't hide a WMS layer in a given
> mapfile, from showing up in GetCapabilities ... Weren't you paying attention
> in our workshop debbie ? :)
> 
> I haven't checked, but I'd encourage you to file a feature enhancement into
> the MapServer bugzilla about this if there isn't one already ... I could use
> that feature too :)
> 
> Cheers,
> J.F.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowell Filak [mailto:lfilak@medinaco.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: Debbie Pagurek; mapserver-users@lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] preventing certain layers from appearing
> in thegetCapabilities doc?
> 
> If I recall a discussion from the User Meeting correctly, you will need to
> use a different Mapfile to do that.
> HTH
> Lowell F.
> 
> The following message was sent by "Debbie Pagurek" <pagurekd@agr.gc.ca> on
> Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:49:05 -0400.
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a mapfile that I am using for an web mapping interface, as well as
> doubling as a WMS server.  There are layers used in the interface that I
> don't want appearing in the getCapabilities document though and I thought I
> could prevent them from appearing there by omitting the METADATA tags for
> those layers, but that is not the case.  Is there a way to select which
> layers in a mapfile should appear in a GetCapabilities document?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Debbie
> >