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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

Using an external GeoWebCache


The integrated GeoWebCache is a convenient way to use a powerful caching tool while avoiding the complexity of an external installation and configuration. So, what is the point of using an external instance of GeoWebCache?

In a production environment, you will often have to deal with multiple GeoServer instances, running in parallel like a cluster. Indeed, we will see how to configure such a scenario in Chapter 11, Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment. When more than one GeoServer publishes the same data, you cannot efficiently use the integrated GeoWebCache. There is no way to connect all the GeoServers to a single GeoWebCache. Anyway, it would make no sense as you will introduce a single point of failure in your architecture.

So, you have two ways to go--using the integrated GeoWebCache on each GeoServer node, duplicating the tiles and wasting a lot of space, or installing an external GeoWebCache and linking it to each GeoServer node.

Installing and configuring...

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