Layer is invalid or connection with geoserver is lost! Please report this issue.
TheonlyOrthes opened this issue · 1 comments
Hi!. I'm trying to use your extension in QGIS 3.16-3 | Windows 10| but with any option i get the message
Error: Layer is invalid or connection with geoserver is lost! Please report this issue.
and nothing is imported.
From looking at the code, it seems that the plugin simply references a GeoServer instance at 18.223.98.214. ipinfo.io says that is in an Amazon owned block of addresses. That likely means it is hosted off of AWS. There is an old version of Nginx running on port 80 of the Ubuntu instance.
Port 8080 is down. That is where they are running the Java servlet (in Apache Tomcat or similar) for GeoServer. Since 8080 is down and not only GeoServer, the whole service is down or the port has become misconfigured and blocked. GeoServer can be ...involved... to maintain in long term, but it is hard to say at the moment if GeoServer itself is the problem.
It may be cheaper and easier to move all of the vector and raster files to AWS S3 (or another S3 provider), but I am not sure how much of the plugin would have to change to switch from WMS to S3 with GeoTIFF (and S3 with whatever the author's preferred vector format is from WFS). QGIS has an HTTP/FTP protocol reader that also seems to work with publicly hosted S3 buckets. Actually, that looks like a recommended way of working with S3. The S3 protocol in QGIS may simply be a viscurl wrapper.