Lodha Follow Dec 3, 2020 6 min read Geoserver is a JAVA based application developed to ease the styling and sharing of geospatial data using Opensource technology.

It follows the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and thus has wide application in a variety of industries.

Geoservers website states more clearly regarding its usability and documentation.

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Let us begin by understanding the requirements and steps in order to install and run geoserver successfully Installing Geoserver in a GUI-based system such as Windows, Mac or even Ubuntu GUI is a piece of cake.

Have a look at my blogs about windows or about mac installations, If you have GUI access for Ubuntu machine you can follow similar steps for mac.

But If you just have a connection to ssh terminal and thats all.

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Roll up your sleeves and follow this blog First things first, try to use the terminal as an admin user so you dont have to type password zillion times.Make yourself the owner and go to the root directory: sudo -u root -i also, make sure you have an updated system sudo apt-get update Step 1: CheckInstall JAVA 8 Geoserver currently only supports JAVA-JRE-8, you can install it by typing sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre To cross-check installation, type java -version and you should get something similar to this as an output java -version output showing version 1.8 is installed Step 2: Installation of Postgres ( Optional ) Most of the time, we prefer to save the data in the database so that it can be accessible can used by a lot of other applications as well.

But no worries If you visit the GeoServer download page, youll see that they use Sourceforge to keep their repo, when you click on download, you get redirected and GeoServer starts getting downloaded.

If you remove the download from the URL, youll get a URL that can be used to download GeoServer zip using terminal Geoserver Download page (Focus on URL) now we need a safe place to download and unzip the GeoServer.

Well create a new directory and put GeoServer in it cd usrshare mkdir geoserver cd geoserver wget This will download a geoserver-2.18.1-bin.zip file in a GeoServer folder that we just created.

The next step is to unzip the geoserver-2.18.1-bin.zip.

This will unzip the GeoServer folder, and if you type ls in the command line, youll see something like this: Finally, well set up a variable to make it workable echo export GEOSERVERHOMEusrsharegeoservernew.profile..profile and make sure that the user is the owner of this folder as well sudo chown -R USERNAME usrsharegeoservernew Step 4: Once everything is done You are there Geoserver is successfully installed and you can now turn it up.

Step 5: Making Geoserver ready for usage Since you have installed GeoServer with Terminal, Im guessing this is for your server, which means we need to be sure that the GeoServer and data inside it is accessible publicly.

The default port for GeoServer is 8080, which must be open in your server in order to be able to access GeoServer from anywhere, another business we need to take care of is the CORS policy, Geoserver allows users to get the data as a JSON, XML, etc.

If you try to use GeoServer right now, if you access the layers from another, itll show you a CORS error.

In order to solve this, you need to uncomment few lines in a web.xml file, which is generally located at geoserverwebappsgeoserverWEB-INF Once you reach in a folder using the terminal, you can open and edit the file using vim.

You can install vim by simply typing sudo apt install vim and then you can open the web.xml file using vim: sudo vim web.xml Vim allows us to modify the file from the terminal.

CORS Jetty Once you find it, Uncomment the code and again search for CORS, Since we are not using tomcat, you can keep CORS related to tomcat commented.

You can hit the Esc key to get out of edit mode and type:wq to save the changes in web.xml Now you can head back to the bin folder again and run the GeoServer like Step 4.

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