Removing unused services

In this book we mainly used GeoServer as a map server. In fact, GeoServer ships with three OGC services enabled: WMS, WFS, and WCS. If you are only going to use GeoServer to produce maps, you should disable WCS and WFS, or at least set them to read-only mode. We use WFS-T for editing data in the chapter about security. If your data is static, the most secure way to avoid accidental updating or deleting is to disable WFS-T.

Note

Web Coverage Services is the analogue of WFS for raster. We will briefly introduce it in Chapter 12, Going Further: Getting Help and Troubleshooting, but chances are that you won't need it.