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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   GeoServer Beginner's Guide Share geospatial data using Open Source standards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297370
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. GIS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with GeoServer 3. Exploring the Administrative Interface 4. Adding Your Data 5. Accessing Layers 6. Styling Your Layers 7. Creating Simple Maps 8. Performance and Caching 9. Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface 10. Securing GeoServer Before Production 11. Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment 12. Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting

Deploying GeoServer on Tomcat

With Java installed and working, let's install GeoServer. When writing this book, the latest version is 2.11.0. Perform the following steps:

  1. Download the OS-independent version from GeoServer's download page. You can point your browser to the URL or use a command-line tool like wget:
      ~ $ wget   
http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/
2.11.0/geoserver-2.11.0-war.zip
wget is a command-line utility commonly available on Linux systems. If you are using a Windows machine it is probably not available. You can download the items just pasting the URL into your internet browser.
  1. Check if Tomcat is not running; if it is, then stop it. Now, unzip the archive you just downloaded in the webapps folder:
        ~ $ sudo unzip -d /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.13/webapps geoserver
-2.11.0-war.zip geoserver.war...
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