Removing unused services

In this book, we have mainly used GeoServer as a map server; in fact, GeoServer ships with three OGC services enabled--WMS, WFS, and WCS. If you will only use GeoServer to produce maps, you should disable WCS and WFS, or at least set them to read-only mode. Do you remember when we used WFS-T to edit data in the chapter about security? If your data is static, the most secure way to avoid accidental updating or deleting is disabling WFS-T.

Now, you should turn off WCS and WFS, or only WFS-T, according to your needs:

1. Open the GeoServer web interface. On the left pane, you can see the Services category and, under it, a list containing WMTS, WCS, WFS, and WMS. Select WCS, shown as follows:

2. Remove the flag from the Enable WCS checkbox to disable the service and click on the Submit button, shown as follows:

3. Now select WFS in the Services list. If you don't want to deliver features to your users, disable the service as you did for WCS:

4. If you do not want to block your user from...