The Services section
When you publish your data, GeoServer exposes it through standard services, that is, WMS
for maps, WFS
for features, WCS
for coverages, and WMTS
for map tiles. Each one of them can be configured from this section, changing the default settings. You can also selectively disable them. This may be useful to increase the GeoServer performance on small servers. By default, all services are enabled:
WMTS
Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is an OGC standard protocol to serve pre-rendered georeferenced map tiles over the internet. On the administration interface, you can change the service metadata, or enable and disable the service. Please note that WMTS is delivered from the integrated GeoWebCache so if GWC is disabled then WMTS would not be available.
WMS
Web Map Server (WMS) is an OGC standard to publish data as maps. The GetMap operation, as defined by the standard, lets a client request maps as images; for example, a .png
or .jpeg
file.
From this section, you can change the service...