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Deploying Geoserver with Apache Tomcat

Geoserver is required for Arches 5+ as the standard map tileserver was removed.

Tomcat

  1. Install tomcat
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tomcat9 tomcat9-admin
  1. Enable service and allow traffic
sudo systemctl enable tomcat9`
sudo ufw allow from any to any port 8080 proto tcp
  1. Test by visiting port 8080 http://localhost:8080

Geoserver

  1. Download the latest WAR file and move it onto the server http://geoserver.org/release/stable/ WAR WeWeb Archive (war) for servlet containers.

  2. Place the WAR file in /webapps directory in the tomcat service /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps

  3. Restart tomcat sudo service tomcat9 rsetart

Proxy with apache2

  1. Add to apache2 conf
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On

    ProxyPass /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"
    ProxyPassReverse /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"

  1. Enable proxy sudo a2enmod proxy

  2. Enable http proxy sudo a2enmod proxy_http

  3. Enable rewrite sudo a2enmod rewrite

  4. Restart sudo service apache2 restart

When using SSL

  1. Make sure the virtual host 443 also includes
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On

    ProxyPass /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"
    ProxyPassReverse /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"
  1. Comment out the ProxyPass information regarding GeoServer in the virual host 80
   # ProxyRequests Off
   # ProxyPreserveHost On

   # ProxyPass /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"
   # ProxyPassReverse /geoserver "http://localhost:8080/geoserver"
  1. In the geoserver web.xml file (if installed normally this will be found in /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml) add the following lines to the bottom:
    <context-param>
      <param-name>PROXY_BASE_URL</param-name>
      <param-value>https://DOMAIN NAME/geoserver</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
     <param-name>GEOSERVER_CSRF_WHITELIST</param-name>
     <param-value>DOMAIN NAME</param-value>
    </context-param>