All OGC Web Services (OWS) (WMS, WFS, soon WCS) have several common configuration elements in the Web Admin Tool. Sometime we will allow one to configure these once and choose to inherit from the common configuration or not, but for now you must fill out each service separately. Mostly it is the meta information for the capabilities documents that each serve. If you are just evaluating GeoServer then the meta information need not be configured, but if you are serving GeoServer publically then we highly recommend that you take the time to fill these out appropriately, so that clients don't confuse your layers for the GeoServer defaults. Indeed the only way we will build a true GeoSpatial Web with search and all is if the meta information is filled out correctly. If you are only using one of the WFS and WMS then we recommend that you disable the one not being used in the Contents section. Each Service has a Contents and a Description. The Contents section controls options specific to each, and the Description section focuses on the Capabilities document's meta information.

Contents

The Contents section contains an Enabled check box. If you are not using the Web Map Server, or are using another piece of software to serve the other service, then this box should be unchecked so that users can not access it. The section also contains the Online Resource section. It is supposed to be the 'home page' of the service, a web page describing the WMS and/or WFS that GeoServer is providing. If you don't have one set up, you can leave this setting at the default, which is The GeoServer homepage.

Limiting the SRS listing

GeoServer natively supports almost 4000 spatial referencing systems (SRS). Therefore, the WMS GetCapabilities request, which contains a full listing of each supported SRS, is very long, and thus can cause issues with certain clients.

As a solution, GeoServer now allows the customization of that list, so as to display only the SRS that are wished to be displayed. This feature is new as of version 1.6.3.

This is set in the box entitled Limited Capabilities CRS List. In this box, you can input a comma-separated list of SRS codes, and only those codes will be retrieved.. Note that it is not necessary to prepend the "EPSG:" before each number; GeoServer will add that automatically.

A Web Map Server with only two SRS codes.

When finished, click Submit, then Apply and Save.

Now take a look at the WMS GetCapabilities document. Inside <WMT_MS_Capabilities> <Capability> <Layer>, you will see the following code:

<!--All supported EPSG projections-->
<SRS>EPSG:2000</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2001</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2002</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2003</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2004</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2005</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2006</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2007</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2008</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2009</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2010</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:2011</SRS>
...

<!--Limited list of EPSG projections:-->
<SRS>EPSG:4326</SRS>
<SRS>EPSG:900913</SRS>

Description

The Description section represents the Service section of a Capabilities document, common across all OGC Web Services. From the WFS 1.0 spec: