Installing GeoServer on Ubuntu

• Posted: August 28, 2009
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• Author: Vorleak Chy
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• Filed under: Tools
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• Tags: GeoServer, Map, Tools, Ubuntu

Recently, I install GeoServer 1.7.6 on Ubuntu 9.04. I would like to share some information with everybody what I have configured on my local PC.

As far as I follow the installation instruction of GeoServer documentation for Linux I get the error message “The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
This environment variable is needed to run this program” when I try to startup server by typing “sudo sh startup.sh”. It means that it doesn’t find the default path for JAVA_HOME so you need to setup.

Setting up JAVA_HOME you need to lookup the Java program path in your PC. In my local PC is “/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun”.

Finally you also setup GEOSERVER_HOME is where GeoServer folder stores on your local PC.

Anyway you can copy the codes below to startup.sh, shutdown.sh files in /geoserver/bin folder, put on the top and replace the path.

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun";
GEOSERVER_HOME="/home/administrator/software/geoserver";

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