Problems with GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR

[Ryan Clark]

I'm now dealing with an installation of GeoServer that comes "canned" with GeoNetwork 2.4.2. This is all on an Ubuntu 9.04 box under Tomcat 6. 

The box has two instances of GeoServer running under Tomcat - one (1.7.3) for GeoNetwork, and another (2.0) for us to use to serve up our WMS/WFS. The 2.0 installation is working fine, but the 1.7.3 installation seems to be unable to find the data directory. I've put the correct path into the web.xml file, but it doesn't seem to be listening.  I keep getting "java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not find services.xml under:/mnt/data-store/geonetwork/web/geoserver/data" errors, regardless of what the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR is set to in the web.xml. I think I need to avoid setting an environment variable to specify the data directory because it is different for the two GeoServer instances.

How come it doesn't seem to be accepting my changes to the web.xml file? What is overwriting it?

Thanks,

Ryan

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[Miles Jordan]

Ryan Clark wrote:
> I think I need to avoid setting an environment variable to specify the
> data directory because it is different for the two GeoServer instances.

Yes you definitely do need to avoid that - try removing the environment variable and set the data dir in the web.xml of each instance.

http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/2.5+GeoServer+Data+Directory

-Miles
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[Ryan Clark]

I haven't ever explicitly set an environment variable for the data directory, so I'm curious why the changes in web.xml don't seem to be working....

Thanks,

Ryan

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Miles Jordan <Miles.Jordan@...> wrote:

Ryan Clark wrote:
> I think I need to avoid setting an environment variable to specify the
> data directory because it is different for the two GeoServer instances.

Yes you definitely do need to avoid that - try removing the environment variable and set the data dir in the web.xml of each instance.

http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/2.5+GeoServer+Data+Directory

-Miles
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[Andrea Aime-4]

Ryan Clark ha scritto:
> I haven't ever explicitly set an environment variable for the data
> directory, so I'm curious why the changes in web.xml don't seem to be
> working....

Maybe GeoNetwork startup is setting it as a system variable, who
knows... (-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=xxx)

Cheers
Andrea


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