Hi Ashton,
  Is it your GeoServer installation? If so you will need to set permissions 
using whatever your file-system is so you can edit that file. If the GeoServer 
is maintained by someone else, talk to them and ask them to give you writer 
permission to that file.

That said, I'm not sure why you'd need to edit web.xml to "upload" a shapefile. 
You can either place the shapefile in the desired location on the 
host(GeoServer) filesystem using whatever normal tools you use to do that for 
this system, and then use the GUI to add the layer and point at that file.
Or you can use the REST API: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1242797/rest-uploading-a-shapefile

Cheers,
Jonathan

---- On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:37:33 +0000 Ashton Eaves 
<[email protected]> wrote ---- 

I would like to use Geoserver to display my shapefiles online. However,I am 
having trouble with the uploading part. I do not have premissions to alter the 
file  WEB-INF/web.xml as mentioned in the online tutorial given here: 
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/setting.html#datadir-setting.
 I have downloaded an xml editor and I still have not had any luck. Do you have 
any advice? or a simple work-around to connect my hard drive to the online 
server?
Any help is much appreciated.

-- 
Ashton Eaves

0226346149

[email protected]




 
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