Users Guide

Overview

The User portion of the documentation is focused on getting new users up to speed with all the capabilities of GeoServer.  The 0.1 Introduction contains background information on the GeoServer, and the 0.2 How to Help section details how you can easily become involved in the GeoServer project.

Users wanting to get started quickly can go to the Tutorials, which contains cross cutting links into the full docs on how to get GeoServer up and running quickly.

Users new to OGC protocols will find interesting documentation on other sites, such as full blown web mapping courses and the like.

User Configuration

The full depth of user configuration of GeoServer is found under 2 Configuring GeoServer. The sections on 2.2 Service Configuration and 2.1 Data Configuration are focused on the web admin tool, and detail all the possible options. 1.1 Install GeoServer gives in depth information on how install initially, while 2.5 GeoServer Data Directory details an easy path to upgrade and distribute alternate configurations of GeoServer. And 2.6 GeoServer in Production Environment gives tips for setting up GeoServer to actual serve data, instead of just demoing a sample instance.

User Tutorials

The Tutorials section contains a variety of step by step guides to get started with various aspecs of GeoServer.  Some of these are linked to in the Users Guide, but some are not.

Beyond GeoServer

The final section is 5 Beyond GeoServer, which contains a variety information that is not directly related to GeoServer, but is likely quite useful to our users. This is the place in the documentation that is the easiest to get involved, and where users can have the biggest impact, since the core developers of GeoServer have an easy time documenting GeoServer itself, but the knowledge is spread more thin when we go beyond. The Clients section contains information about clients that are known to work with GeoServer. Please feel free to add any additional information, about experiences and how to configure the clients for GeoServer, as well as new WMS or WFS clients. Data Loading contains potentially helpful information on loading up TIGER data into GeoServere, tips and tricks that we've found when doing it ourselves.  And Spec Explanations and Sample Requests contains information that is more generic to how the open interfaces such as WMS, WFS, SLD, and Filter work - information that is quite useful to new users, but is in no way unique to GeoServer.  We're hoping to expand this section in to its own space, but for now this is just a holding section for spec related info that doesn't fit elsewhere. Finally 6 User Experiences is the easiest place for new contributors to make an impact, as we encourage informal experiences, and just links to GeoServer applications.

Full User Documentation

0 General Information

Here you can find background information about GeoServer, its license, and its comminity.

1 Getting Started

  • 1.1 Install GeoServer — Installing GeoServer is relatively simple, however there is more than one way to do so. The appropriate method depends upon the operating system and container (such as Tomcat) that will be used.
    • 1.1.1 Windows Install — How to install GeoServer on Microsoft Windows with the installer (.exe).
    • 1.1.2 Binary Package Install — How to set up GeoServer with the binary distribution package (-bin version) for Mac, Unix, and Windows platforms.  This is used for manually installing the files and  running GeoServer as a Java program without a wrapper such as Tomcat.
    • 1.1.3 War-File install — How to install GeoServer into servlet containers such as Tomcat, Jetty, and Jboss.
    • 1.1.4 CentOS (Red Hat) 5.1 Install — How to install GeoServer on CentOS 5.x (also valid for Red Hat 5.x), including Postgresql with Postgis support.
  • 1.2 Add a Dataset — Configure GeoServer to serve up your data
  • 1.3 Style Your Map — A quick tutorial on how to create and use SLD files to style your map
  • 1.4 Configure GeoServers Settings — How to configure the various settings in GeoServer
  • 1.5 Additional Data Formats — Extra data formats such as PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE and MySQL.

2 Configuring GeoServer

This section of the docs is focused on setting up a geoserver instance for use.

3 Services

4 Tutorials

This page is intended for beginners who have never used GeoServer before or who have used it only a few times and are learning the basics.

5 Beyond GeoServer

6 User Experiences

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