Configuration
pycsw’s runtime configuration is defined by default.cfg. pycsw ships with a sample configuration (default-sample.cfg). Copy the file to default.cfg and edit the following:
[server]
- home: the full filesystem path to pycsw
- url: the URL of the resulting service
- mimetype: the MIME type when returning HTTP responses
- language: the ISO 639-2 language and country code of the service (e.g. en-CA)
- encoding: the content type encoding (e.g. ISO-8859-1)
- maxrecords: the maximum number of records to return by default
- loglevel: the logging level (see http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html#logging-levels)
- logfile: the full file path to the logfile
- ogc_schemas_base: base URL of OGC XML schemas tree file structure (default is http://schemas.opengis.net)
- federatedcatalogues: comma delimited list of CSW endpoints to be used for distributed searching, if requested by the client (see Distributed Searching)
- xml_pretty_print: whether to pretty print the output XML (true or false). Default is false
- gzip_compresslevel: gzip compression level, lowest is 1, highest is 9. Default is 9
- profiles: comma delimited list of profiles to load at runtime (default is none). See Profile Plugins
[manager]
- transactions: whether to enable transactions (true or false). Default is false (see Transactions)
- allowed_ips: comma delimited list of IP addresses which can perform transactions (see Transactions)
[metadata:main]
- identification_title: the title of the service
- identification_abstract: some descriptive text about the service
- identification_keywords: comma delimited list of keywords about the service
- identification_fees: fees associated with the service
- identification_accessconstraints: access constraints associated with the service
- provider_name: the name of the service provider
- provider_url: the URL of the service provider
- contact_name: the name of the provider contact
- contact_position: the position title of the provider contact
- contact_address: the address of the provider contact
- contact_city: the city of the provider contact
- contact_stateorprovince: the province or territory of the provider contact
- contact_postalcode: the postal code of the provider contact
- contact_country: the country of the provider contact
- contact_phone: the phone number of the provider contact
- contact_fax: the facsimile number of the provider contact
- contact_email: the email address of the provider contact
- contact_url: the URL to more information about the provider contact
- contact_hours: the hours of service to contact the provider
- contact_instructions: the how to contact the provider contact
- contact_role: the role of the provider contact
[repository]