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Geoserver Extractor handles

1. zip file with ESRI shapefile (consists with .shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj and etc.).
2. GeoTiff image with Geo tag in the header

The  The extractor publishes the ESRI shapefile or Geotiff file to geoserver as WMS service. In order for the extractor to work, you need to install two software:two things:

Install Geoserver

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/installation/war.html

1. Download geoserver war

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/geoserver-2.3.0-war.zip

2. Unzip the file 

unzip geoserver-2.3.0-war.zip

3. Deploy the war to tomcat

sudo cp geoserver.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/

3. Access web page for geoserver admin at http://[your_server]/geoserver

The inital access to the admin page will initialize the setting of geoserver. Therefore you have to access it at least once.

4. Login with default admin pw

u: admin
p: geoserver

- open /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/data/security/masterpw.info
- make a note of the master pw from the file and delete the file
- delete /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/data/security/users.properties.old

- go to "Security/users, groups, roles" - "users/groups tab"
- click "admin" user
- change the password and save

* clean the example layers at geoserver
- go to Workspaces
- select all workspaces
- remove selected workspace

* add new workspace for medici
Name: medici
Namespace URI: http://medici.ncsa.illinois.edu
Default workspace: true
Settings: Enabled
Services: Check WMS

Setting up Geoserver Extractor

GDAL libraries

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin
sudo apt-get install python-gdal
sudo apt-get install proj
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

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