Installing the IAU authority

The IAU authority is an official extension:

1. Login, and navigate to About & Status > About GeoServer and check Build Information to determine the exact version of GeoServer you are running.

2. Visit the website download <download> page, change the Archive tab, and locate your release.

   From the list of Miscellaneous extensions download IAU.

   • {{ release }} example: iau
   • {{ version }} example: iau

   Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example {{ release }} above).

3. Extract the archive and copy the contents into the GeoServer WEB-INF/lib directory.

4. Restart GeoServer.

Verify Installation

To verify that the extension was installed successfully:

1. On the left menu, get into Demos and then SRS List

2. Go into the table filter text field, and type IAU, then press enter

3. A number of IAU codes should appear in the table