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you must enable the wcs service, see: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/ThreddsConfigXMLFile.html#WCS Ed Fialkowski wrote: > Hi John, I work with Stefan Falke and Rudi Husar at Wash. U. and we're > interested in using the THREDDS WCS Server. > I have thredds and tomcat up and running. I can browse the default > catalog that loads from server:8080/thredds, but I'm having issues with > the WCS side of it. > > When I view server:8080/thredds/wcs, I get a 403 - service forbidden > error report, and the same for any /wcs/ requests I try. > type Status report > message Service not supported > description Access to the specified resource (Service not supported) has > been forbidden. > > I have added the wcs service to the default catalog: > <service name="wcs" serviceType="WCS" base="/thredds/wcs/" > suffix="?request=GetCapabilities&version=1.0.0&service=WCS "/> > <datasetRoot path="testwcs" dirLocation="/data/wcs/" /> > </service> > > located in thredds/WEB-INF/initialContent/, but I'm just not sure what > else to do to enable the WCS server. > I've checked the permissioning for the wcs directories, and I don't see > why it would be 'forbidden' when the rest of the data directories are not. > I'm not extremely familiar with tomcat, so I'm not real sure what to do > about a service forbidden. > > If you have some time, can you think of anything that might help? > Thanks very much. > -Ed Fialkowski