OpenLayers: Properly use a WMS layer to display a TMS layer from a different server

Question

I have two servers:

the first server is 177 and that has a html file with the TMS layer.

We will call this tms_layer.html and it has your init function with this in there:

var tmsoverlay = new OpenLayers.Layer.TMS( "TMS Overlay", "",
  {
    serviceVersion: '.', layername: '.', alpha: true, type: 'JPG', getURL:   
    overlay_getTileURL, isBaseLayer: true
  });

When i go to 177/tms_layer.html the tiles are being correctly displayed.

So that is working fine.

Now, I want to serve that tms_layer.html file on a different server (server 190), and I have been trying to serve it as a WMS layer. Not sure if WMS is the best approach but I think it is. Correct me if I'm wrong.

We'll call this tiles_revision1.html and within the init function I currently have:

layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "My TMS layer in WMS",
  "http://177/dev/tiles/tiles_1a.html", {layers: ['tmsoverlay'], transparent: "true", format: "image/jpg"} );
map.addLayer(layer);

For the layers: [] do I even need to reference this since it's just a bunch of jpgs making up the tile(s)/map? Leaving it blank has not done anything.

With the above code I currently get a blank OL map, see here (When I pan around the map I get a Uncaught TypeError: cannot read property 'wrapDateLine' of null. I don't think that is the root of my issue though):

Edit: the most important thing here is to be able to access those 177 tiles from anywhere as a baselayer. There is quite a few associated jpgs, and the tms_layer.html file is pretty beefy on its own.

What is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

Like Devdatta Tengshe suggested, you have to configure a TMS layer in tiles_revision1.html.

var tmsoverlay = new OpenLayers.Layer.TMS( 
    "TMS Overlay", 
    "http://url_to_177/",
    {
        serviceVersion: '.', 
        layername: '.', 
        alpha: true, 
        type: 'JPG', 
        getURL: overlay_getTileURL, 
        isBaseLayer: true
    });

If you still want (or need) to access the tiles via a WMS, you will have to setup a WMS service. If that so, look for one of these:

• MapServer
• GeoServer
• Mapnik