A quickstart for GeoServer to run on OpenShift

I used Tomcat 7 (JBoss EWS 2.0)

This is based on GeoServer 2.8.0 WAR file. http://geoserver.org/release/2.8.0/

To fully appreciate what is happening here please read the blog post to accompany this repo.

The SQL files were originally obtained from Santa Cruz county http://gis.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/file_download_site/ as shapefiles

They were then reprojected to EPSG:4326 and converted to PostGIS SQL (using ogr2ogr)

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Here are the instructions to add this git repo to a blank tomcat 7 application local git repo.

Given the size of this repository in Megabytes, it will definitely timeout and fail if you try to use it with --from-code and the rhc command line tools

$ rhc app create geoserver tomcat7

#if you are in the paid tier I highly recommend using a medium or large gear
# $ rhc app create geoserver tomcat7 -g medium
# $ rhc app create geoserver tomcat7 -g large


$ cd geoserver

$ git remote add github -m master git@github.com:thesteve0/geoserver-on-openshift.git

$ git pull -s recursive -X theirs github master

$ git push origin

This WAR file takes a very long time to deploy, please be patient.

Once it works, the URL to access it will be:

http://geoserver-{your domain}.rhcloud.com/web

Please change the default username and password immediately