Installing Geoportal Server 2.5.0

Install Prerequisites

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

Deploy Geoportal Server

• Deploy geoportal.war to Tomcat.
• Update your Geoportal essential configuration
  • Main configuration file
  • Security
  • Logging
• 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

[Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/config/app-context.xml

Set the cluster and node name(s) for Elasticsearch cluster. By default, Geoportal is configured to look on the localhost for a cluster named elasticsearch.

	<beans:bean id="elasticContext" class="com.esri.geoportal.lib.elastic.ElasticContext">
		<beans:property name="clusterName" value="${es_cluster:elasticsearch}" />
		<beans:property name="nodes">
			<!-- The list of host names within the Elasticsearch cluster, one value element per host -->
			<beans:list>
				<beans:value>${es_node:localhost}</beans:value>
			</beans:list>
		</beans:property>
	</beans:bean>  

If you have a cluster with multiple nodes, you can define it in one of two ways:

• Add the following to [Tomcat8]/conf/catalina.properties, es_node is a comma separated list.

# Geoportal
es_cluster=myclustername
es_node=host1,host2

• OR, update app-context.xml

  <beans:bean id="elasticContext" class="com.esri.geoportal.db.elastic.ElasticContext">
    <beans:property name="clusterName" value="myclustername" />
    <beans:property name="nodes">
        <beans:value>host1</beans:value>
        <beans:value>host2</beans:value>
      </beans:list>
    </beans:property>
  </beans:bean>  

Security configuration

[Tomcat8]/webapps/geoportal/WEB-INF/classes/app-security.xml

• configure various authentication options such as simple, LDAP, OAuth2.

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.