Install Geoserver on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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GeoServer Installation On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Install Tomcat7:

sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin

Add a new Tomcat user:

sudo gedit /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
   <user username="admin" password="admin" 
      roles="manager-gui,admin-gui,manager,admin,manager-script,admin-script"/>

Increase the deploy filesize:

sudo gedit /usr/share/tomcat7-admin/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml

<multipart-config>
     <!-- 50MB max -> Increase this value below: -->
     <max-file-size>92428800</max-file-size>
     <max-request-size>92428800</max-request-size>

Install GeoServer .war file:

• Download war file -> http://geoserver.org/release/2.7.6/
• Unzip geoserver-2.7.6-war.zip geoserver.war
• Move the war file to webapps dir:

    sudo mv geoserver.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/

Restart Tomcat:

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart