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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.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
GIS Fundamentals
GIS Fundamentals
What is GIS about?
The foundation of any GIS - spatial data
Measuring the world
Understanding coordinate systems
Representing geometrical shapes
Modelling the real world with raster data
Representing the world
Adding more colors to your maps
Summary
2
Getting Started with GeoServer
Getting Started with GeoServer
Installing required components
Configuring Tomcat as a service on Linux Mint
Installing GeoServer
Deploying GeoServer on Tomcat
Implementing basic security
Improving security settings
Understanding the GeoServer release cycle
Upgrading your installation
Summary
3
Exploring the Administrative Interface
Exploring the Administrative Interface
Understanding the interface
The About & Status section
The Data section
The Services section
Settings
Tile Caching
The Security panel
Demos
Summary
4
Adding Your Data
Adding Your Data
Configuring your data
Configuring vector data sources
Configuring raster data sources
Adding a raster
Exploring additional data sources
Summary
5
Accessing Layers
Accessing Layers
Web services
WMS formats
Working with tiles
Exploring further Web Map Service output formats
Web Feature service
Extra output options
The TEXT/HTML format
ImageMap
Using the WMS Reflector
Summary
6
Styling Your Layers
Styling Your Layers
Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
Editing styles
Exploring the standard structure of a style
Loading data for styling
Working with point symbols
LineString symbols
Working with polygon symbols
Adding labels
Thematic mapping
Setting visibility
Putting it all together
Styling with CSS
Summary
7
Creating Simple Maps
Creating Simple Maps
Exploring the Google Maps API
Using OpenLayers
Exploring Leaflet
Summary
8
Performance and Caching
Performance and Caching
Exploring GeoWebCache
Configuring GeoWebCache
Configuring Disk Quota
Setting Caching Defaults
Default layers options
Configuring Tile Layers
Using tiles with OpenLayers
Seeding a layer
Using an external GeoWebCache
Summary
9
Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface
Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface
Introducing REST
Using REST
Installing the Requests library
Managing data
Using data stores
Using feature types
Publishing data
Working with Layers
Administer GeoServer with REST
Summary
10
Securing GeoServer Before Production
Securing GeoServer Before Production
Basic Security Settings
Defining users, groups, and roles
Accessing data and services
Securing layers
Summary
11
Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment
Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment
Tuning Java
Installing native JAI
Removing unused services
Enabling the Marlin rasterizer
Setting a proxy
Avoiding service faults
Summary
12
Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting
Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting
Going beyond maps
Delivering vector data
Retrieving vector data
Delivering raster data
Retrieving raster data
Advanced configuration - Database connection pooling
Advanced configuration - Monitoring GeoServer
Getting help
Summary
Index
Index

Setting a proxy

Whether you are using GeoServer on Tomcat or you used the Windows installer that incorporates a Jetty instance, it is not a good idea to expose it directly to your users, especially if they are on the internet. A safer option is to use a more stable web server, such as Apache HTTPD--one of the most popular and widely used web servers across the web. To expose GeoServer, or more generally, a Java application from the web server, you need to set a proxy on the web server. Users will point to an alias and their requests will be redirected to Tomcat, more safely deployed in a protected LAN.

We will configure the Apache HTTP web server to act as a proxy for GeoServer. First of all, we need to get it working; you will learn that, just like many other open source projects, this is surprisingly simple! Perform the following steps:

  1. To install Apache on Linux, you can use the distribution repository. At the time of writing, it installs release 2.4.18 for Linux Mint:
$ sudo apt-get install...
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