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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]

Note

See Metadata Repository Setup for connecting your metadata repository and supported information models.

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