[GeoNetwork-users] GeoNetwork Server on Debian Linux

  Hi,

I support the IT for a Carbon Capture and Storage research group.

I have installed GeoNetwork on our Debian Squeeze web server in the hopes that our researchers who work remotely from each other in a number of different universities can use our GeoNetwork installation as a catalogue (and maybe also as a repository) for the related project documentation and resulting datasets (metadata).

*Question 1*: Does the geonetwork installation include geoserver and intermap, and if so how are these accessed?

The documentation that I find on the internet explains that the installation should create three web application folders, geonetwork, intermap, and geoserver, however when I run the installation file "geonetwork-install-2.6.3-0.jar" and inspect the created directory "/usr/local/geonetwork/web", I only find one folder geonetwork and one file, geoserver.war, there is no intermap folder.

Checking a Windows installation (installed from "geonetwork-install-2.6.3-0.exe"), the folder structure of the only find one folder geonetwork and one file, geoserver.war, there is no intermap folder. In the Windows installation I am able to load via a web browser, "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/" and "http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/" but in the Linux installation (Debian 6, squeeze), I can only load http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/\.

I am wondering if intermap, and geoserver are really subcomponents of geonetwork? The other option is that there is something wrong with the Linux installation ?

*Question 2*: I have read that "the size of a single file to upload can't exceed 50 Mbytes", however I have been told our seismic datasets are much larger than this (>500MB). The 50MB sounds like quite a limitation, is there any reason for this or other alternatives I do not realise.
http://129.2.12.102:8080/geonetwork/docs/eng/users/quickstartguide/new_metadata/index.html

I did find this suggestion on the web "Although the upload is limited in size, the download is not limited. Our working practice (which is maybe not always all that practical :slight_smile: is to upload a small file and replace the file on disk with the large, correct one." Is this a recommended work-around?

*Question 3*: Do you know of any one using GeoNetwork for Carbon Capture and Storage who may be able to provide us with suggestions on how best to utilise GeoNetwork ? Our hope is to use GeoNetwork to catalogue our CCS metadata.

Thanks,

George.

Hello George

Question 1:

Intermap has been moved from 2.6.0 version and replaced by
Openlayers(Javascript based Map Viewer). This map Viewer configuration is
present in mapViewer tag in config-gui.xml present under WEB-INF folder
Geoserver is still present and you can access it by
http://<youripaddress:<yourportno>/geoserver and can login with
admin/geoserver (defaultuserid/ passwords)

Questions 2:

File Size can be changed through settings present in WEB-INF/config.xml You
will find this setting under <general> tag

<maxUploadSize>100</maxUploadSize>

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From: George Kirkham [mailto:G.Kirkham@anonymised.com]
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To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] GeoNetwork Server on Debian Linux

  Hi,

I support the IT for a Carbon Capture and Storage research group.

I have installed GeoNetwork on our Debian Squeeze web server in the
hopes that our researchers who work remotely from each other in a number
of different universities can use our GeoNetwork installation as a
catalogue (and maybe also as a repository) for the related project
documentation and resulting datasets (metadata).

*Question 1*: Does the geonetwork installation include geoserver and
intermap, and if so how are these accessed?

The documentation that I find on the internet explains that the
installation should create three web application folders, geonetwork,
intermap, and geoserver, however when I run the installation file
"geonetwork-install-2.6.3-0.jar" and inspect the created directory
"/usr/local/geonetwork/web", I only find one folder geonetwork and one
file, geoserver.war, there is no intermap folder.

Checking a Windows installation (installed from
"geonetwork-install-2.6.3-0.exe"), the folder structure of the only find
one folder geonetwork and one file, geoserver.war, there is no intermap
folder. In the Windows installation I am able to load via a web
browser, "http://localhost:8080/geoserver/&quot; and
"http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/&quot; but in the Linux installation
(Debian 6, squeeze), I can only load http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/.

I am wondering if intermap, and geoserver are really subcomponents of
geonetwork? The other option is that there is something wrong with the
Linux installation ?

*Question 2*: I have read that "the size of a single file to upload
can't exceed 50 Mbytes", however I have been told our seismic datasets
are much larger than this (>500MB). The 50MB sounds like quite a
limitation, is there any reason for this or other alternatives I do not
realise.
http://129.2.12.102:8080/geonetwork/docs/eng/users/quickstartguide/new_metad
ata/index.html

I did find this suggestion on the web "Although the upload is limited in
size, the download is not limited. Our working practice (which is maybe
not always all that practical :slight_smile: is to upload a small file and replace
the file on disk with the large, correct one." Is this a recommended
work-around?

*Question 3*: Do you know of any one using GeoNetwork for Carbon Capture
and Storage who may be able to provide us with suggestions on how best
to utilise GeoNetwork ? Our hope is to use GeoNetwork to catalogue our
CCS metadata.

Thanks,

George.

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Also, starting from the 2.6.x branch, Geoserver started being deployed as a
packed .war file instead of a stand-alone uncompressed directory. This
causes problems if you need to point it to already existing WMS + WFS etc.
data from an older installation and you had chosen NOT to install everything
inside Tomcat's directory, but rather, in an external directory with
absolute paths hardcoded into the web.xml files (for both Geonetwork and
Geoserver), as I did for flexibility.

However, you can still unpack the .war file into a geoserver directory and
bring back the pre -2.6.x filesystem layout, which IMO works better by not
wrapping the various .xml configuration files, which can now be changed
anytime without packing and unpacking everything inside the war. I just
don't get why it was deemed a better solution to deploy it packed.