Install GeoServer Application

In this section we are going to setup GeoServer for GeoNode. GeoServer will run inside Tomcat sevrlet container.

Setup GeoServer

1. You’ve already installed Tomcat 8 in the system in the first section of the training. Before you deploy GeoServer stop the running Tomcat instance

   $ sudo service tomcat8 stop
   

2. Now copy the downloaded GeoServer archive inside Tomcat’s webapps folder

   $ sudo cp -Rf /home/geonode/my_geonode/geoserver/geoserver/ /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/
   

3. Move GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR on an external location

   $ sudo mkdir -p /data/geoserver-data
   $ sudo mkdir -p /data/geoserver-logs
   $ sudo mkdir -p /data/gwc_cache_dir
   $ sudo cp -Rf /home/geonode/my_geonode/geoserver/data/* /data/geoserver-data/
   $ sudo chown -Rf tomcat8: /data/geoserver-data/
   $ sudo chown -Rf tomcat8: /data/geoserver-logs/
   $ sudo chown -Rf tomcat8: /data/gwc_cache_dir/
   

4. Set default Java settings

   You need to edit the /etc/default/tomcat8 file

   $ sudo vim /etc/default/tomcat8
   

   Make sure JAVA_OPTS are configured as follows

   #JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"
   GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR="/data/geoserver-data"
   GEOSERVER_LOG_LOCATION="/data/geoserver-logs/geoserver.log"
   GEOWEBCACHE_CACHE_DIR="/data/gwc_cache_dir"
   GEOFENCE_DIR="$GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/geofence"
   
   JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:PermSize=128m -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -Duser.timezone=GMT -Dorg.geotools.shapefile.datetime=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Djavax.servlet.response.encoding=UTF-8 -DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=$GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR -Dgeofence.dir=$GEOFENCE_DIR -DGEOSERVER_LOG_LOCATION=$GEOSERVER_LOG_LOCATION -DGEOWEBCACHE_CACHE_DIR=$GEOWEBCACHE_CACHE_DIR"
   

   Warning

   Double check memory options -Xms512m -Xmx2048m are compatible with your VM available RAM

5. Set default Catalina settings

   You need to edit the /var/lib/tomcat8/conf/catalina.properties file

   $ sudo vim /var/lib/tomcat8/conf/catalina.properties
   

   Make sure bcprov*.jar is skipped at run-time

   tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanFilter.jarsToSkip=\
   ...
   xom-*.jar,\
   bcprov*.jar
   

6. Restart Tomcat 8 service

   $ sudo service tomcat8 restart
   

   You can follow the start-up logs by running the following shell command

   $ sudo tail -F -n 300 /var/lib/tomcat8/logs/catalina.out
   

Test GeoServer

Now start Tomcat to deploy GeoServer:

sudo service tomcat8 start

Tomcat will extract GeoServer web archive and start GeoServer. This may take some time

Open a web browser (in this example Firefox) and navigate to http://localhost:8080/geoserver

In a few seconds GeoServer web interface will show up:

GeoNode authentication integration

All we need to do now is to integrate GeoNode authentication so that GeoNode administrator will be able to access and administer GeoServer as well.

1. Stop GeoServer

   $ sudo service tomcat8 stop
   

2. Edit /data/geoserver-data/security/filter/geonode-oauth2/config.xml with a text editor

   $ sudo gedit /data/geoserver-data/security/filter/geonode-oauth2/config.xml
   

   And make sure the following values are configured as follows:

   <accessTokenUri>http://localhost/o/token/</accessTokenUri>
   <userAuthorizationUri>http://localhost/o/authorize/</userAuthorizationUri>
   <redirectUri>http://localhost/geoserver</redirectUri>
   <checkTokenEndpointUrl>http://localhost/api/o/v4/tokeninfo/</checkTokenEndpointUrl>
   <logoutUri>http://localhost/account/logout/</logoutUri>
   

3. Edit /data/geoserver-data/security/role/geonode\ REST\ role\ service/config.xml with a text editor

   $ sudo gedit /data/geoserver-data/security/role/geonode\ REST\ role\ service/config.xml
   

   And make sure the following values are configured as follows:

   <baseUrl>http://localhost</baseUrl>
   

4. Edit /data/geoserver-data/global.xml with a text editor

   $ sudo gedit /data/geoserver-data/global.xml
   

   And make sure the following values are configured as follows:

   <proxyBaseUrl>http://localhost/geoserver</proxyBaseUrl>
   

5. Restart GeoServer to make the changes effective

   $ sudo service tomcat8 restart
   

   You can follow the start-up logs by running the following shell command

   $ sudo tail -F -n 300 /var/lib/tomcat8/logs/catalina.out