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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an open source server-side software written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer allows you to display your spatial information to the world. Implementing the Web Map Service (WMS) standard, GeoServer can create maps in a variety of output formats. OpenLayers, a free mapping library, is integrated into GeoServer, making map generation quick and easy. GeoServer is built on Geotools, an open source Java GIS toolkit.GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you a kick start to build custom maps using your data without the need for costly commercial software licenses and restrictions. Even if you do not have prior GIS knowledge, you will be able to make interactive maps after reading this book.You will install GeoServer, access your data from a database, style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps.Follow along through a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. Explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as MySQL, PostGIS, MSSQL, and Oracle. Display your data on web-based interactive maps, style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. Walk away from this book with a working application ready for production.After reading the GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will have beautiful, custom maps on your website built using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
GeoServer Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Security


Along with caching, security is an area greatly improved in the 2.2 release. Most of the improvements are very advanced topics, such as for integrating security with other external systems, for example, LDAP. In the Security panel, you can find links for setting user properties and bind data to security rules, as shown in the following screenshot:

The basic idea is that you create users and roles and combine them with data to enable specific access policies. You can also limit read and write access by role. We will go over these in detail in a later chapter.

Settings

From here you can control the global security settings.

Users, Groups, and Roles

A list of the users, groups, and roles that are configured on GeoServer are shown here. By default, you have one user called ADMIN, and one role called ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR.

Clicking the username allows you to edit the account password, assign new roles, and add a role.

Data

You're able to give access to workspaces and layers in a granular way. So...