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

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4. Access web page for geoserver admin

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at http://[your_server]/geoserver and Login

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

5. Follow the security instructions at the admin page

Here are example instrucitons:

- 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-

6. Change the password of "admin" user

1. go to "Security/users, groups, roles" - "users/groups tab"

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1. click "admin" user

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1. change the password and save

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7. Clean the example layers at geoserver

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1. go to Workspaces

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1. select all workspaces

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1. remove selected workspace

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8. Add new workspace for medici with the following information

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

Setting up Geoserver Extractor

The following software are needed for the Geoserver Extractor. Also it needs the "identify" command from Magik. Since Image Extractor is usually installed as default, we assume that it's already installed.

1. Install 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

Geoserver (http://geoserver.org)

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2. Update the extractor configuration

1. Edit /home/medici/extractor/server.properties with the following info:

geoserver.server=http://lowermississippi.ncsa.illinois.edu/geoserver
geoserver.owsserver=http://lowermississippi.ncsa.illinois.edu/geoserver/wms
geoserver.username=admin
geoserver.password=[password]

3. Restart Extractor Service

sudo /etc/init.d/medici-extractor restart

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