Installing GeoServer

GeoServer is packaged as a standalone servlet for use with existing servlet container applications such as Apache Tomcat.

Note

GeoServer has been mostly tested using Tomcat, and therefore these instructions may not work with other container applications.

Installation

  1. Navigate to the GeoServer Download page and pick the Latest stable version to download.

  2. Select Web archive on the download page.

  3. Download and unpack the archive. Copy the file geoserver.war to the directory that contains your container application’s webapps.

  4. Your container application should unpack the web archive and automatically set up and run GeoServer.

    Note

    A restart of your container application may be necessary.

Running

Use your container application’s method of starting and stopping webapps to run GeoServer.

  1. Access Tomcat opening a browser and navigate to http://host:{}/geoserver. For example, with Tomcat running locally on port 8080 like in this WorkShop, the URL would be http://localhost:8080/geoserver.

Uninstallation

In case you need to remove GeoServer (but don’t do it now) you can use the following steps:

  1. Stop the container application.
  2. Remove the GeoServer webapp from the container application’s webapps directory.