I installed a "minimal virtual machine" using the ubuntu 10.4 server installation image and followed my steps. It worked!
I have to admit: i had to install wget to download geoserver, everything else worked. I can display the default layer previews. i'm setting a "full" server installation right now and will report back in a few minutes. Am 07.08.2010 um 11:06 schrieb Lennart Jütte: > i'm setting up ubuntu server right now to find it out. > > it worked on ubuntu desktop before, but i can't remember if it tweaked tomcat > or not. > > Am 07.08.2010 um 11:01 schrieb Andrea Aime: > >> Lennart Jütte ha scritto: >>> Sorry badaveil, i forgot to add the list to CC, so i'm resinding this mail. >>> no need to reply. >>> * >>> * >>> *---* >>> * >>> * >>> Step by step guide: >>> 0) install tomcat6 (yo already done that: # sudo aptitude install tomcat6 >>> 1) Download the web archive from the geoserver download site: >>> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Stable >>> # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/geoserver-2.0.2-war.zip >>> 2) unzip it. You'll get a folder that contains a .war file. >>> # sudo aptitude install unzip && unzip geoserver-2.0.2-war.zip >>> 3) move this war to tomcat's webapp-folder: /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ >>> # sudo mv geoserver.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ >> >> Last time I checked Ubuntu's Tomcat was severely crippled down, >> would not allow apps to hit the file system, use enviroment variables, >> use reflections and whatnot. That effectively made GS unusable unless >> you changed the default permissions. >> >> Has this changed? >> >> Cheers >> Andrea >> >> >> -- >> Andrea Aime >> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org >> Expert service straight from the developers. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
