Setup

The following operations are required to setup GeoServer enterprise for use in a production environment:

• Default admin password warning
• Master password warning
• Set Java startup options
• Configure the Marlin renderer
• Configure WPS permissions
• Disable deprecated WPS processes
• URL Checks
• Set WMS memory use limits
• Installing and configuring the Control Flow extension
• Configure disk quota for tile storage
• Set production logging levels

GetCat recommends the following best practices:

• Web Server
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
• Store geospatial data files in their own folder
• Ensure PostGIS tables have a spatial index
• Ensure GeoTIFF layers have internal tiling and overview defined
• Use the libjpeg-turbo library

Security:

• Admin password setup
• Master password setup

Advanced topics:

• GeoWebCache Full WMS
• Application Properties
• Naming
• Configure GEOSERVER_DATA_DIRECTORY to point to an external folder.

References:

• Running in a production environment