Cool, it works if I set the data dir location explicitly in web.xml, as you say.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Per Liedman

2010/8/10 Arne Kepp <[email protected]>:
>  My bad, I never deploy in Tomcat when I look for bugs, and whenever I do
> set up an instance it's for production.
>
> Can you set GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR in web.xml ? It can point to the same
> location where you have the files now.
>
> ( I've worked out a patch tonight that'll let GWC get the location from the
> GeoSever Catalog, so hopefully this won't be needed anymore, starting with
> tomorrow's nightlies. )
>
> -Arne
>
>
> On 8/6/10 1:27 PM, Per Liedman wrote:
>>
>> Oh, sorry, I'm using GeoServer 2.0.2, latest stable if I understand
>> correctly.
>>
>> I searched my D: drive for geowebcache.xml, but found only the file
>> with that name is located under D:\Program
>> Files\Tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\geoserver\data\gwc\geowebcache.xml.
>>
>> Also, it seems other people have the same error in their logs:
>> http://old.nabble.com/problems-starting-Geoserver-2.0.1-td27823745.html
>> (which it actually seems that you also replied to). Your reply says
>> that the log message is normal and means that it simply could not find
>> a configuration file for GeoWebCache, is this how I should interpret
>> it?
>>
>> Anyway, do you have a suggestion for how I could debug where it
>> searches for the configuration, and why it doesn't find it?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Per Liedman
>>
>> 2010/8/6 Arne Kepp<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>  Always include which version of GeoServer you are using?
>>>
>>> Can you search d:\program files for occurences of geowebcache.xml ? It
>>> looks
>>> like it found another file, which probably shouldn't have been there.
>>>
>>> ".....\webapps\geoserver\data\gwc\geowebcache.xml" looks right to me.
>>>
>>> -Arne
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/6/10 10:32 AM, Per Liedman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm working on a configuration for the geowebcache instance integrated
>>>> into GeoServer, but have trouble getting GeoServer to pick it up. The
>>>> documentation
>>>> (http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/geowebcache/setup.html)
>>>> says:
>>>>
>>>> "If you need to use more of the GeoWebCache’s features than the
>>>> automatic configuration offers then you can create a gwc directory
>>>> inside the GeoServer data directory, and in it place a geowebcache.xml
>>>> file."
>>>>
>>>> I have GeoServer deployed in Tomcat, under the path D:\Program
>>>> Files\Tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\geoserver, and hence put the configuration
>>>> file under D:\Program
>>>> Files\Tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\geoserver\data\gwc\geowebcache.xml. This
>>>> does not seem to work, though. The only thing I see in the logs
>>>> regarding GeoWebCache on startup is:
>>>>
>>>> 05 aug 16:56:03 ERROR [layer.TileLayerDispatcher] - Error reading
>>>> service information from D:\Program
>>>> Files\Tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\geoserver\..\resources: Error parsing file
>>>> D:\Program
>>>> Files\Tomcat-6.0.29\webapps\geoserver\..\resources\geowebcache.xml
>>>>
>>>> My question is: what is the correct location of the configuration
>>>> file, how can I verify that it is being used and what is this strange
>>>> file location that is mentioned in the log?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards and thanks in advance,
>>>> Per Liedman
>>>>
>
>



-- 
Per Liedman
Software Engineer
Kartena AB
[email protected]
http://www.kartena.se
031 - 77 44 397

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