I would like to use Geoserver to display my shapefiles online. However,I am having trouble with the uploading part. I do not have premissions to alter the file WEB-INF/web.xml as mentioned in the online tutorial given here: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/setting.html#datadir-setting. I have downloaded an xml editor and I still have not had any luck. Do you have any advice? or a simple work-around to connect my hard drive to the online server?
Any help is much appreciated.
Hi Ashton,
Is it your GeoServer installation? If so you will need to set permissions using whatever your file-system is so you can edit that file. If the GeoServer is maintained by someone else, talk to them and ask them to give you writer permission to that file.
That said, I’m not sure why you’d need to edit web.xml to “upload” a shapefile. You can either place the shapefile in the desired location on the host(GeoServer) filesystem using whatever normal tools you use to do that for this system, and then use the GUI to add the layer and point at that file.
Or you can use the REST API: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1242797/rest-uploading-a-shapefile
Cheers,
Jonathan
---- On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:37:33 +0000 Ashton Eaves aeav330@anonymised.com wrote ----
I would like to use Geoserver to display my shapefiles online. However,I am having trouble with the uploading part. I do not have premissions to alter the file WEB-INF/web.xml as mentioned in the online tutorial given here: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/setting.html#datadir-setting. I have downloaded an xml editor and I still have not had any luck. Do you have any advice? or a simple work-around to connect my hard drive to the online server?
Any help is much appreciated.–
Ashton Eaves
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