• Windows Server 2003
• Java JRE build 1.6.0_29-b11
• Tomcat version 6.0.33 (Windows Service Installer)
• The CGI-Proxy is written in Python

1. Download the proxy.cgi file from the OpenLayers web site:


http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/browser/trunk/openlayers/examples/proxy.cgi



Comment: This file is also included in the OpenLayers API download:

http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/HowToDownload





2. Modify the proxy.cgi file to include your domain in the allowedHosts list:


allowedHosts = ['www.yourdomain.com:8080']



Comment: Note that you have to include domain AND port here.




3. Copy the proxy.cgi file to the following folder:


$TOMCAT_PATH$/webapps/yourApp/WEB-INF/cgi/




4. Modify the file web.xml of your web app by adding the sections below. You find the file at


$TOMCAT_PATH$/webapps/yourApp/WEB-INF/web.xml


Comment: In case the web.xml file doesn’t exist for your webapp, just create it yourself or copy it from another webapp and modify it.

Comment: the “param-value” for the “executable” parameter has to contain the path to your Pyhton installation.



  <servlet>

      <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

      <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>

    <init-param>

      <param-name>debug</param-name>

      <param-value>0</param-value>

    </init-param>

    <init-param>

      <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>

      <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>

    </init-param>

    <init-param>

      <param-name>executable</param-name>

      <param-value>c:\python25\python.exe</param-value>

    </init-param>

    <init-param>

      <param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name>

      <param-value>true</param-value>

    </init-param>

    <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>

  </servlet>



  <servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

    <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>

  </servlet-mapping>





5. Modify the file context.xml of your web app by adding the element below. You find the file at
$TOMCAT_PATH$/webapps/yourApp/META-INF/context.xml


Comment: In case the context.xml file doesn’t exist for your webapp, just create it yourself or copy it from another webapp and modify it.




  <Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" useHttpOnly="true" />





6. Restart Tomcat




7. To use the proxy with OpenLayers, just include this single line into your code:

OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/yourWebApp/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";

First impression of Osna – just great!! The people are extremely friendly, the volleyball team is great fun and my colleagues at university are very far-sighted and cooperative. I really had a blast of a start up here!



For those of you who don’t know where Osnabrück is by now – it’s here





Quick recap of the first 1.5 months:

• 3 publications submitted
• 1 book submitted for publication (my PhD thesis)
• 2 project proposals submitted
• 3 funded Master Theses acquired
• Volleyball Cup tournament near Hannover: not so good
• Volleyball league: good (leader in the Lower Saxony division after two victories)
• Hamburg visit: check!
• First Salzburg visit: check!
• The start into the nightlife was quite “successful”

Also, I uploaded some images. The albums are not linked anymore on the web site, but you know how to find them