Xiaoyu

Recently, I setup GeoServer on Ubuntu 8.04. It would be nice to share some information with everybody. it is not easy to install everything. Firstly, you need Ubuntu, you can download and install it by yourself from www.ubuntu.org. beside that, you need JDK6, Tomcat6 and Geoserver.war.

about how to install JDK and tomcat

here is a very good article from howtogeek.com. how to setup tomcat 6 on ubuntu.

Step1. install JDK

open terminal , type ’sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk’

do not switch off the terminal.

step2. install Tomcat6

use commands

‘wget http://apache.hoxt.com/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.xx/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz’

‘tar xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.xx.tar.gz’

there are three versions tomcat, 14,16,18, choose your version, replace ‘xx’

follow the article, move all the installation file to ‘/usr/local/tomcat’

use commands

’sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 /usr/local/tomcat’

open another terminal , use command ’sudo nautilus’

it will open a new fie explorer , use the file explorer open this file

‘/usr/local/tomat/bin/shartup.sh’

at the 7th line add

‘export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun’

save it and close the explorer.

go back to the articles. setup automatically startup .

easy way is download the file, put it  at ‘/etc/init.d/’

in the terminal, use command ’sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat restart’ , btw, if you want to stop tomcat, use command ’sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat stop’

after restart it, if everything fine.  open our Firefox , via tomcat by address http://127.0.0.1:8180/

then you depoly your geoserver.war files. everything done.

Good luck

Xiaoyu