How to cache Geowebcache tiles from applications

Question

I have enabled disk quota to cache tiles that produced by WMS. Geoserver admin panel Tile Caching->Tile Layers list of cached layers. I can preview here on a demo page.

http://localhost:8080/geoserver/gwc/demo/pgs:topas?gridSet=EPSG:4326&format=image/png

After preview I see that disk quate increased. This works fine.

I am using my layers on my OpenLayers application but used disk quata is not increasing. application is using url: http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms/..... Used tiles are not inserting to disk. Why does not this?

(I have enable Tile Caching->Caching Defaults->Enable direct integration with GeoServer WMS)

Answer 1

The chances are your OpenLayers application is requesting data in as a regular WMS request.

The following options will let you fix it:

• Make sure you meet all the requirements listed here: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/geowebcache/using.html#direct-integration-with-geoserver-wms - the one you're most likely missing is tiled=true as a parameter in your requests.

• Use WMTS/TMS - ideal for basemaps, not so much other layers.