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Expert GeoServer

By : Ben Mearns
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Expert GeoServer

By: Ben Mearns

Overview of this book

GeoServer is open source, server-side software written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. In this book, you'll start by learning how to develop a spatial analysis platform with web processing services. Then you'll see how to develop an algorithm by chaining together geospatial analysis processes, which you can share with anyone in the world. Next you'll delve into a very important technique to improve the speed of your map application—tile caching. Here, you'll understand how tile caching works, how to develop an effective tile cache-supported web service, and how to leverage tile caching in your OpenLayers web application. Further on, you'll explore important tweaks to produce a performant GeoServer-backed web mapping application. Moving on, you'll enable authentication on the frontend and backend to protect sensitive map data, and deliver sensitive data to your end user. Finally, you'll see how to put your web application into production in a secure and user-friendly way. You'll go beyond traditional web hosting to explore the full range of hosting options in the cloud, and maintain a reliable server instance.

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Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Preface
Preface
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Developing a Spatial Analysis Platform with WPS
Developing a Spatial Analysis Platform with WPS
Installing and learning the basics of WPS
WPS request builder
Process chaining
OpenLayers integration
Summary
2
Speed Up Your App with Tile Caching
Speed Up Your App with Tile Caching
Tile caching basics
Configuring tile caching in GeoServer
Creating a tile-backed OL app
Using the tile cache
Resolving problems with tile caching
Summary
3
Optimizing GeoServer
Optimizing GeoServer
Resolving bottlenecks
Optimizing vector data stores
Optimizing raster data stores
Clustered deployment
Summary
4
Secure Authentication
Secure Authentication
Configuring the proxy
HTTPS with TLS and certificates
GeoServer authentication
Secure login from OL
Summary
5
Putting it into Production
Putting it into Production
Hosting your GeoServer instance and app
Monitoring the GeoServer instance
Backup and recovery
Production checklist
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6
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Secure Authentication

In this chapter, you will learn how to use HTTPS to provide secure login from an OpenLayers app to your GeoServer-based services. You'll also learn about the building blocks of our proxy platform, Apache HTTPD, and Tomcat, and how to configure them. Next, we'll cover HTTPS and TLS, and you'll learn how to generate certificates to enable secure requests. You'll learn about GeoServer's user-access permissions that permit authorized users to access the server. Finally, we'll test out a secure login with curl and an OpenLayers web app.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Configuring the proxy
  • HTTPS with TLS and certificates
  • GeoServer authentication
  • Secure login from OL
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