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From: Gi Petrak <[email protected]>
Date: 2016-01-03 18:44 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Unable to find the .shp file when I'm trying
to add a new store
To: Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>


Thank you very much !

I'm running Linux. Changing the permissions of my shapefile folder, problem
solved. I used the first recommended solution.

Kind regards,
George



2016-01-02 23:25 GMT+02:00 Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>:

> Gi,
>
> is your GeoServer is running on Linux? Does the system GeoServer user
> (e.g. tomcat) have permission to list the directory contents? If not,
> GeoServer will let you browse the folder but it will appear to be empty.
> This is a common problem that occurs when adding data as the root user when
> your servlet container is running as a non-root user, because the default
> permissions for new files created by root are often restrictive. You can
> examine the permissions on this directory and its contents with:
>
> ls -al your_shapefile_directory
>
> You can grant read access to group and other users with (as a permissive
> example):
>
> chmod -R go+rX your_shapefile_directory
>
> The X (execute bit where set for some user) permits directory contents to
> be listed and must be set to permit on directories to allow browsing of
> their contents. All parent directories up to "/" require read and execute
> permissions as well.
>
> An alternate solution is to use chown to change the owner and group of the
> new data to match your other data directory files. For example, if and only
> if your data directory is owned by a user called "tomcat" with a group
> called "tomcat" (check before you do this as there is no way to recover the
> owner/group information after you change it):
>
> chown -R tomcat:tomcat your_shapefile_directory
>
> or even to set this for your entire data directory:
>
> chown -R tomcat:tomcat your_geoserver_data_directory
>
> The best solution depends on your system conventions and configuration.
>
> If this does not work, are you running selinux with enforcing? You can
> list your security contexts with:
>
> ls -alZ your_shapefile_directory
>
> If you are using selinux enforcing you may need to use restorecon after
> adding new data. This depends on your system configuration. If you do not
> see security contexts when running "ls -alZ" and only see "?" then you are
> likely not running selinux.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
>
>
> On 03/01/16 09:09, Gi Petrak wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to publish a shapefile in my geoserver. I have created the
>> geoserver_data directory and I have inserted a shapefile folder in it.
>> When
>> I'm browsing on the Shapefile location field to find the .shp file and I'm
>> opening the shapefile folder, it is empty. I can't find the shp file via
>> geoserver while the folder contains all the appropriate files.
>> What can I do to solve this ?
>>
>> Thank you in advance !
>>
>>
>>
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