Serve Data using Configuration Files

Do I need a config file?

Simple Tiled servers can be run without a configuration file. Examples:

# A read-only public server of existing data
tiled serve directory --public files/

# A temporary writable catalog
tiled serve catalog --temp

# A persistent writable catalog
tiled catalog init catalog.db
tiled serve catalog catalog.db --write data/

A configuration file is necessary to specify more advanced deployments, such as:

With multi-user authentication
Serving multiple differently-configured sources of data at various path prefixes like /raw_data and /processed_data

The path to the configuration file (or directory of multiple configuration files) should be specified when the server is started, as in:

tiled serve config my_config_file.yml

or

tiled serve config my_config_directory/

Alternatively, if not specified in the commandline, the configuration path may be passed in via the environment.

TILED_CONFIG=my_config_file.yml tiled serve config
TILED_CONFIG=my_config_directory/ tiled serve config

Finally, if the environment variable is not yet, a default location ./config.yml is set.

tiled serve config  # uses ./config.yml if environment variable TILED_CONFIG is unset

But explicitly specifying the configuration location is recommended, for clarity.

See Security and Access Control for examples addressing authentication and authorization.

See example_configs/ in the Tiled repository root.

See Security and Access Control for discussion and examples addressing authentication and authorization.

See Service Configuration Reference for a comprehensive reference of the server configuration options.