Geoserver-tomcat Cookbook

Installs and configures geoserver to run on tomcat application server.

Requirements

Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Cookbooks

Requires the following cookbooks

• application_java
• database
• postgresql
• postgis
• tomcat

Attributes

• node[:geoserver][:version] - The version of geoserver to install.

• node[:geoserver][:workingDir] - The temporary working directory for downloading and extracting geoserver archive.

• node[:geoserver][:link] - The geoserver compressed archive link.

• node[:geoserver][:home] - The directory where geoserver war would be hosted and deployed to tomcat.

• node[:geoserver][:data] - Geoserver data directory.

• node[:geoserver][:context] - Geoserver context path on tomcat.

Postgresql related attributes

• node[:geoserver][:database] - The name of the postgresql database.
• node[:geoserver][:database-user] - The name of the database user.
• node[:geoserver][:database-password] - The password for the database user.

Recipes

• default.rb - Downloads geoserver and deploys it to tomcat.
• postgresql.rb - Creates postgresql database and user for geoserver. Alos installs postgis extensions to this database.

Chef Solo Note

You can install geoserver on tomcat as follows.

Create a file geoserver.json with the following contents.

{
    "geoserver-tomcat": {
        "data": "/usr/local/geoserver-data",
        "database": "geoserver",
        "database-user": "geoserver",
        "database-password": "suerpsecretpassword"
    },
    "postgresql": {
        "password": {
            "postgres": "postgres123"
        }
    },
    "tomcat": {
        "base_version": "7"
    },
    "java": {
        "jdk_version": "7"
    },
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[geoserver-tomcat]"
    ]
}

License and Author

• Author:: Ashish Shinde ([email protected])
• Author:: Sandeep Tadekar ([email protected])
• Author:: Prabhakar Rajagopal ([email protected])

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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