3 Practice II: Configuring the OPeNDAP Catalog/Aggregation Server

Now that you've set up your Aggregation Server, you need to configure it to handle your data. All configuration is done with the XML catalog file described in Chapter 2. This chapter describes what goes into that file.

Before reading this chapter, you should be familiar with basic XML concepts, such as elements, attributes, and Document Type Definition (DTD)'s.

• 3.1 How it works
• 3.2 Dataset URLs
• 3.3 Mapping Datasets to Internal Files
• 3.4 Using the Aggregation Server as a NetCDF server
• 3.5 Dataset Aliases
• 3.6 Multiple Aggregation elements