When GeoServer SQL Server stores won’t load on a new server We’ve been migrating a large GeoServer instance onto a new Windows 2019 server. The old GeoServer instance was running version 2.7, the new one version 2.15.1. Nearly everything “just worked” after... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 01 June 2020 Categories: GeoServer Comments(2)
How to remove .png files recursively from a folder tree without removing .png8 files too We have some large GeoWebCache caches of Ordnance Survey map tiles in .png8 format. Unfortunately a few million .png files have crept into the caches too (accidental bad config at some point),... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 27 May 2020 Categories: GeoServer Ordnance Survey Python Comments(0)
Configuring Geoserver with Geo web cache (GWC) The aim of this is to improve the performance of our mapping (obvious really I hope) both in terms of the speeds a user experiences and in terms of the number of users our server can support. In... read more Posted by 21 February 2019 Categories: GeoServer Comments(0)
GeoServer WFS fails on SQL Server tables/views with GUID data type Just a quick note that might be useful to some. The problem... If you publish a SQL Server (in this case 2014) table or view with a GUID field using GeoServer (version 2.10), it will fail to... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 11 January 2017 Categories: GeoServer OGR/GDAL SQL Server WFS Comments(0)
How to change the port for GeoServer on Windows with Jetty Faced with the task of upgrading a production GeoServer under heavy constant use, I decided to install the newer version alongside first, migrate the content, then make the switch when I was happy... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 19 April 2015 Categories: GeoServer IIS Windows Server 2008 Comments(3)
WMS/WFS down when a GeoServer store is disabled after Windows updates Last night some of our servers restarted after scheduled updates, and we awoke to warning emails that some of our GIS web services were down. The affected WMS/WFS services were from GeoServer, so we... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 13 November 2014 Categories: GeoServer PostgreSQL/PostGIS SQL Server Comments(0)
Presenting GeoServer on port 80 on a Windows IIS Server We run several instances of GeoServer on Windows servers, using the Jetty web server included in the GeoServer for Windows installer. By default this results in a service running on an address like... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 25 June 2013 Categories: GeoServer IIS Comments(1)
Invalid column name problem with GeoServer 2.3 and SQL Server views I have been getting this error with a WMS layer based on a SQL Server 2008 view, when using a GetFeatureInfo request: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException java.io.IOException null... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 13 June 2013 Categories: GeoServer SQL Server WMS Comments(0)
When GeoServer forgets about GeoWebCache I’ve been setting up some new mapping services (WMS) in GeoServer, with GeoWebCache allowing the map tiles to be cached for performance. For this to work, and for the WMS to use its cache of tiles,... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 05 March 2013 Categories: GeoServer GIS (general) WMS Comments(0)
Further load testing of GeoServer and MapServer (and tilecache) My previous load testing of GeoServer and MapServer involved requesting just one 256x256 pixel map across all the virtual user sessions. In this test, GeoServer performed stunningly well so long as... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 29 January 2012 Categories: CGI GeoServer MapServer Comments(0)