Creating and setting a new GeoServer Data DirectoryΒΆ
Generally if GeoServer is running in Web Archive mode inside of a servlet container, as in this Workshop, the data directory is located at
<web application root>/data
(the data directory contains the GeoServer configuration data).The first thing to do is to configure correctly the geoserver_data directory. For simplicity, the
geoserver_data
is configured by default under the directory:${TRAINING_ROOT}/geoserver_data or %TRAINING_ROOT%\geoserver_data on Windows
Generally this is not an issue. But if you run the system from the Linux ISO this folder resides in the memory. The first thing to do is to move this folder into a local persistent storage.
Move the
geoserver_data
somewhere in the persistent storage using the command:sudo mv -f ${TRAINING_ROOT}/geoserver_data <TARGET_DIR>
Make a symbolic link to the
geoserver_data
by issuing the command:ln -s <TARGET_DIR> ${TRAINING_ROOT}/geoserver_data
Warning
Check that the user
geosolutions
has permissions to read/write all the files/folder inside thegeoserver_data
.Note
Instead of creating a symbolic link you can configure GeoServer in order to allow it to point to the new
geoserver_data
. To do that edit the file/opt/tomcat-geoserver/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml
and modify the context paramgeoserver_data
.