Installing GeoServer
We are well on our way! Go to the GeoServer site (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Stable) and review the installation options available. You'll find several versions of GeoServer. We're going to be using the Web Archive version.
We will deploy the web archive on Apache Tomcat. As you may have guessed, using a Java application server is pretty much the same on any operating system. The next section is common to Linux and Windows and then we will have a little difference in the book, depending on the operating system you are using.