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Expert GeoServer

By : Mearns

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Expert GeoServer

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By: Mearns

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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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Developing a Spatial Analysis Platform with WPS

Installing and learning the basics of WPS

WPS request builder

Process chaining

OpenLayers integration

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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

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Optimizing GeoServer

Resolving bottlenecks

Optimizing vector data stores

Optimizing raster data stores

Clustered deployment

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Secure Authentication

Configuring the proxy

HTTPS with TLS and certificates

GeoServer authentication

Secure login from OL

Summary

Putting it into Production

Hosting your GeoServer instance and app

Monitoring the GeoServer instance

Backup and recovery

Production checklist

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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: