Well, changing the datadir can be slightly tricky for two reasons: 1) GeoServer will not respect this setting until *tomcat is restarted* 2) GeoServer will *ignore the setting* if the directory doesn't exist (that one always trips me up.)
So double-check that the directory exists - either copy/paste the path from your web.xml into the command line for an "ls" command, or use "readlink -f my-data-dir" to get a full path to the datadir you can copy/paste into the web.xml. Then restart GeoServer and check the tomcat log for errors. -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:56 AM, jude mwenda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I had this issue before, where having installed using Ariel's GeoNode > packages, changing the following files does not result in a change on > GeoServer Data directory. The files are: > /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml > /etc/geonode/geoserver/web.xml > > No change in either of this results in the change of the Data directory. > The data directory points to /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/data. Any > pointers? > > -- > Regards, > > Jude Mwenda > Skype id: jmwenda > Twitter: www.twitter.com/judemwenda > Web: www.africangeogeek.com > > "Was ist mein Leben, wenn ich nicht mehr nützlich für andere." > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >
