Linux binary

Note

For installing on Linux with an existing application server such as Tomcat, please see the Web archive section.

The platform-independent binary is a GeoServer web application bundled inside Jetty, a lightweight and portable application server. It has the advantages of working very similarly across all operating systems and is very simple to set up.

Installation

  1. Make sure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your system. GeoServer requires a Java 7 environment. The Oracle JRE is preferred, but OpenJDK has been known to work adequately. You can download JRE 7 from Oracle.

    Note

    Java 8 is not currently supported.

  2. Select the version of GeoServer that you wish to download. If you’re not sure, select Stable.

  3. Select Platform Independent Binary on the download page.

  4. Download the archive and unpack to the directory where you would like the program to be located.

    Note

    A suggested location would be /usr/share/geoserver.

  5. Add an environment variable to save the location of GeoServer by typing the following command:

    echo "export GEOSERVER_HOME=/usr/share/geoserver" >> ~/.profile
. ~/.profile

  6. Make yourself the owner of the geoserver folder. Type the following command in the terminal window, replacing USER_NAME with your own username :

    sudo chown -R USER_NAME /usr/share/geoserver/

  7. Start GeoServer by changing into the directory geoserver/bin and executing the startup.sh script:

    cd geoserver/bin
sh startup.sh

  8. In a web browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/geoserver.

If you see the GeoServer logo, then GeoServer is successfully installed.

../_images/success.png

GeoServer installed and running successfully

To shut down GeoServer, either close the persistent command-line window, or run the shutdown.sh file inside the bin directory.

Uninstallation

  1. Stop GeoServer (if it is running).
  2. Delete the directory where GeoServer is installed.