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Installing Geoportal Server 2.5.0

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ZhongPing Guo edited this page Feb 23, 2018 · 11 revisions

Install Prerequisites

  • Install Elasticsearch (5.1.1 or higher, this version of Geoportal will only work with a 5.X version of Elasticsearch)
  • Install JRE/JDK 8.x
  • Install Tomcat 8.x

Deploy Geoportal Server

  • Deploy geoportal.war to Tomcat.
  • Update your Geoportal essential configuration
  • Restart Tomcat
  • Run quick smoke test
    • Open geoportal web page (e.g. http://localhost:8080/geoportal)
    • Signin as gptadmin/gptadmin (top right)
    • Upload a few metadata records (top right)
    • Perform search (left panel), if search return the matching records, then the basic installation is working
  • Perform additional configuration as necessary

Configure Geoportal Server

Main configuration file

The main configuration file for setting the cluster and node name(s) for Elasticsearch cluster is [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/config/app-context.xml. By default, Geoportal is configured to look on the localhost for a cluster named elasticsearch. If you need to change any of the Elasticsearch related configuration, please see Elasticsearch configuration.

Security configuration

You can configure various authentication options such as simple, LDAP, OAuth2 in Geoportal. The main configuration file for security is [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/app-security.xml.

Logging

[Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties Logging properties. You can modify the location of the log file by updating: log4j.appender.file.File

Elasticsearch mappings for the "metadata" index [Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/config/elastic-mappings.xml Contains the Elasticsearch mappings for the "metadata" index, used when Geoportal auto-creates the "metadata" index. Whenever you create a "metadata" index within Elasticsearch, you'll need to include these mappings within your request "PUT" request.

Make additional metadata elements discoverable

Click here for details.

Customize search panel

Click here for details.

Add support for another language in the interface

Click here for details.

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