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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

Setting a proxy

Whether you are using GeoServer on Tomcat or you used the Windows installer that incorporates a Jetty instance, it is not a good idea to expose it directly to your users, especially if they are on the internet. A safer option is to use a more stable web server, such as Apache HTTPD--one of the most popular and widely used web servers across the web. To expose GeoServer, or more generally, a Java application from the web server, you need to set a proxy on the web server. Users will point to an alias and their requests will be redirected to Tomcat, more safely deployed in a protected LAN.

We will configure the Apache HTTP web server to act as a proxy for GeoServer. First of all, we need to get it working; you will learn that, just like many other open source projects, this is surprisingly simple! Perform the following steps:

  1. To install Apache on Linux, you can use...
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