I recently turned into a noob regarding geoserver jboss. I managed to get geoserver running on Jboss and started adding layers enthousiastically. Then I stopped and restarted JBoss. And then the data_dir got reset as that is what JBoss does...
So, when you deploy on JBoss ALWAYS use an external data_dir. (from the person who found out the hard way ;-) 2015-02-26 10:29 GMT+01:00 Just van den Broecke <[email protected]>: > Fellow countrymen: I agree with Andrea: throughout the years I made many > GeoServer 2.x upgrades up to recent 2.6.2 without issues, using the > same,separate GS data dir, e.g. specified using an env var in > /etc/default/tomcat on Ubuntu. > > What could cause problems though are various kinds of temporary files: > to begin with caching/cookies in your browser possibly causing Wicket > errors. Shift-reload may already help here. Plus possibly server > container temp files like under the Tomcat work dir. In case of any > problems, cleaning temporaries is a first action. Caching is a blessing > and a curse ;-). > > best, > > Just > > On 24-02-15 14:22, Roel De Nijs wrote: >> After Richard’s reply I decided to start from scratch using a fresh data >> directory from the geoserver 2.6.2 war. Deleted all demo workspaces and >> copied our workspaces from the old data directory. Restarted geoserver >> and all previously mentioned problems have vanished. I can preview >> layers again and delete layers. Yay! >> >> Thanks guys for the help and putting me in the right direction! >> >> *Van:*Andrea Aime [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Verzonden:* maandag 23 februari 2015 14:03 >> *Aan:* Richard Duivenvoorde >> *CC:* GeoServer Mailing List List >> *Onderwerp:* Re: [Geoserver-users] web admin interface broken in geoserver >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Roel, >> >> if I remember correct I had the same problem upgrading to 2.6 >> (and the wicket stacktraces are not very helpfull) >> >> by 'merging/overwriting' my external data directory with the 2.6 data >> directory I managed to apparently get stuff back which were >> needed/changed(?) in wicket/templates. (maybe vars defined in compiled >> jsp pages or so??) >> But I lost my 'default polygon/point styles' because of this copy for >> example, giving problems with layers which used those. >> >> I lost some confidence in the 'upgrading'-scenario's of Geoserver >> because of this. IF working with a external data directory, things >> should not brake when you upgrade. I can imagine that there is some new >> stuff needed (templates, variables whatever), but it would be nice if >> you can do an 'easy' upgrade of your external data dir then. >> >> GeoServer upgrades are indeed meant to be uneventful, and all the tests >> >> we run in GeoServer are actually running against older versions of data >> directory >> >> syntaxes (we just never needed to upgrade them to the current content of >> >> the xml files.). >> >> However, if people do not provide reproducible ways to trigger the problems, >> >> there is nothing we can do to fix them >> >> Personally I haven't encountered problems in normal project activity >> >> Cheers >> >> Andrea >> >> -- >> >> == >> >> GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit >> >> http://goo.gl/NWWaa2 for more information. >> >> == >> >> Ing. 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