Mats, the Windows installer is there to help people get started, testing GeoServer and getting to know it, and play with it on their development machine (which is Windows for many). Having an installer that gives many people a quick intro to GeoServer is important for the project diffusion.
We agree it's not meant for production, making a production grade installer would be possible, but there are no resources for it, Windows installations drive very little business (as GeoServer on Linux is anecdotally 30% faster than on Windows, and easier to handle due to file lock issues on Windows). I'm guessing there is a business opportunity there, if nobody wants to do a production grade installer for Windows in spare time, some could come up with it as a paid product. GeoServer would remain GPL, but the installer could be closed source. Would be a good fit for those that have trouble handling a Tomcat installation (believe it or not, I've met various). Having a good guide on how to setup GeoServer on Windows for production would help, and maybe it's easier to find someone that is willing to contribute it in their spare time, rather than writing an installer. If anyone is so inclined, please see the following to get started: https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/docguide/ Cheers Andrea On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:05 PM Mats Elfström <mats.elfst...@giskraft.com> wrote: > Hi! > I really do not miss the windows installer. The war-file approach is so > mych easier to deploy, and makes Geoserver run as a service. As a server > application obviously should. > Also, it was said that the Windows installer only created a test or toy > installation. I had no use for that. > Last month I was setting up a geodata server, and was a bit taken back > without the familiar windows installer. But figured out how to use the war > file. I also wanted Geonetwork which was even easier to launch. > So, I Installed Apache Tomcat/9.0.26 as a service, dropped two war files > in a folder and that was it. > Then (as previously reported) I had a bit of trouble installing the GDAL > libraries. This was because no documentation dealt with this setup. > This was so simple that I'm afraid I am missing some important point here. > What would be the advantage be with a windows installer, as compared to > the war-file installation? > > > *GisKraft*, Geodatakonsult > > Mats Elfström, Marsvinsholms stationsväg 80, 271 93 Ystad, Sweden > tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / web: www.giskraft.com > > > Den tors 17 okt. 2019 kl 11:39 skrev Andrea Aime < > andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>: > >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:33 AM Tom Lynch <t...@trailmarker.io> wrote: >> >>> Hi Daniele and Mats, >>> >>> Just to report on my experience, after that tip from Daniele I was able >>> to get the whole setup working almost immediately, but using the WAR >>> download and a 64-bit install of Tomcat 8.5 as a service. I wasn't able to >>> get the platform-independent binary to load the GDAL stack despite it >>> running under a 64-bit JRE, which was a bit perplexing. >>> >> >> Hum... did you try to start it stand alone or as a service? The service >> mode is compatible only with 32bit, was a limitation of the tool >> we used many years ago to create a service around GeoServer. The Windows >> installer could certainly use a make over, if anyone >> wants to put some development time in it, it would be appreciated. >> >> >>> All good though, working now and I'm unblocked. Thanks again for your >>> help. Let me know if there's a way I can contribute to documentation and so >>> on. >>> >> >> The docs are in version control, written in RST, pull requests are >> welcomed: >> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/doc/en/user/source >> >> If you find that you just want to modify parts of a page, you can just >> hit the "edit" link available in each page right menu, >> and will brig you to the relevant github resource where you can follow >> the quick fix procedure: >> https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/docguide/quickfix.html >> >> Hope this helps >> >> Cheers >> Andrea >> >> == >> >> GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit >> http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf >> Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. 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