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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefano Iacovella
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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an opensource server written in Java that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data. This book will guide you through the new features and improvements of GeoServer and will help you get started with it. GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you the impetus 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, and apply style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps. Then you follow a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. You will explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as PostGIS, and Oracle. Going ahead, you can display your data on web-based interactive maps, use style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. You will walk away from this book with a working application ready for production. After reading GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will be able to build beautiful custom maps on your website using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Basic Security Settings


You already changed the administrator password from the default of geoserver while installing GeoServer; that was the first step to secure your server. Exploring basic Security Settings will move you a little further down the path to building a secure site.

From the Web Administration interface of GeoServer, select the Security Settings. You now have a new panel in the browser window; here you will find a drop-down list showing you the Active role service. The first time you have just one choice; we will create more role services when we deal with users and roles.

Note that you may have just one Active role service:

The Encryption section lets you hide web admin parameters. Encrypting parameters in a URL is a good idea. If you click on Web interface on the Styles list and select one, your browser's address bar should contain this URL:

    http://localhost:8080/geoserver/web/wicket/bookmarkable/
     org.geoserver.wms.web.data.StyleEditPage?  
     6&name=PopulatedPlacesBlueLabeled...