Configuring tile layers

From the web interface, you can access the Tile layers section. All the layers published on GeoServer and configured for caching are listed in this section, and you can review the status and the main parameters for each layer.

The first two columns display the Type and Layer Name, and the third is for per layer Disk Quota. In GeoServer 2.2, the per layer disk quota is not checked and cannot be configured as in the GeoWebCache standalone version, so you can only see an N/A value here. The next column contains the size occupied on disk by the layer's tiles.

The next column shows you if the layer, configured for caching, is enabled to store tiles in the cache. Disabling caching on a layer without removing it from cached layers is useful when you want to temporarily disable layers from caching without losing the configuration.

If caching is enabled on a specific layer, you see a drop-down list with the gridsets associated to that layer, and by clicking on it you can open...