Make a backup of your GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR and try. There is no 100% guarantee because there are so many runtime environments.
If you have enough space. cp -a GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR yourbackdir will do the job. Another possibility is tar zpcvf backup.tgz GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR and restore with tar pxvf backup.tgz GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR Hope this helps Christian Zitat von Robert Buckley <[email protected]>: > > > Ok...the log files in tomcat6 pointed to permission problems. > I changed the owner of the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR to tomcat6:tomcat6 and > restarted > tomcat6 and everything works. > > I can now change the owner of the www folder to allow me to edit my > html and js > files as my normal user. > > Could I now do a new install of geoserver 2.1 war in tomcat6 without > having any > problems? > > thanks, > > Robert > > > > ________________________________ > Von: Robert Buckley <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 30. Juni 2011, 10:54:23 Uhr > Betreff: [Geoserver-users] setting GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR in LINUX under TOMCAT6 > > > Hi, > > As a follow up to my previous thread I have started to test whether the > geoserver data_dir can be redirected as recommended here... > > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/production/data.html#use-an-external-data-directory > > > ..and also here > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/datadirectory/data-dir-setting.html?highlight=data_dir > > > > After following the advice I uncommented the following in WEB-INF/web.xml > > <context-param> > <param-name>GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR</param-name> > <param-value>/path/to/new/directory</param-value> > </context-param> > > > After restarting tomcat6 with stop and start rather than restart ( a tip I > remembered from some time ago) Geoserver ignores the new values. > > > So the documentation is wrong??? > > Other threads say to export variables in bashrc or CATALINA_OPTS or > whatever....what is the definative answer regarding changing the data_dir? > > yours, > Robert ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
