QUICKSTART & PASSWORDS
Version - 20180309
Written by Ricardo Pinho
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
INDEX
Open QGIS sample project to view the included Natural Earth data
Add a new WMS layer from Geoserver to your QGIS project
Create a new WMS layer with GSVM Geoserver and PostGIS
Create a new WMS layer from PostGIS store
Using phpPgAdmin to manage the PostgreSQL server
Using pgAdmin III to manage the PostgreSQL server
Using Webmin to manage the Ubuntu operating system
Use the local site to get more information on using GISVM
REMEMBER, USE GISVM AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server 64bit
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Geoserver 2.12.2
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PostgreSQL 10.3.1
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LOGIN | PASSWORD | URL | |
Ubuntu shell (&sudo) | gisvm | gisvm | http://gisvm:4200 (shellinabox) |
Local site (nginx) | |||
Tomcat 8 | gisvm | gisvm | |
Geoserver | admin | gisvm | |
PostgreSQL (postgis) | postgres | gisvm | |
Webmin | gisvm | gisvm | |
Samba share (/home/gisvm/gisdata) (/samba/gisdata) | (Windows Shortcut) \\gisvm\gisdata |
Three simple steps: Download, unzip and run
GIS Virtual Machine is a complete and independent computer on a file.
It is optimized to use less than 2 GB of space on your disk at start.
You can download and get it in a compacted 7z file that is less than 500 MB.
After download it you must uncompress the 7z file.
You must have a uncompress program installed or install 7z available as free software:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
To run it you must have a Virtual Machine Player installed or install a free available:
- Install VMware Player, available for free (recommended):
https://www.vmware.com/go/tryplayer
- Or install VirtualBox, available as free software:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Or just double click the file “gisvm.vmx” found inside the gisvm unpacked folder.
Use the QGIS installed on your computer or on any other computer at your network, to open the included QGIS sample project file: “gisvm geoserver example.qgs” found in the qgis subfolder inside the gisvm unpacked folder.
Note: If you don’t have QGIS installed, just download it from the official site and install it, it’s free software: http://www.qgis.org/
When you open the project all the data is store on the gisvm virtual machine, published by geoserver using Web Map Services (WMS) of data stored inside the “postgis” database.
To create a new WMS connection on QGIS, simply type: Name = geoserver-gisvm ; URL = http://gisvm/geoserver/gisvm/wms
After creating the connection just select it (geoserver-gisvm) and click on Connect to display all WMS layers available to add to your project.
Add any layer to your QGIS project, for example, the roads shapefile (ne_10m_roads.zip) from Natural Earth dataset: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
Use the DB Manager tool, in the Database menu, to import a PostGIS vector layer to GISVM
The ne_10m_roads layer (table) is now available to be used from PostGIS on GISVM. You can publish it as a WMS layer with Geoserver and add it to your QGIS project, just like before
To do that you must login in the geoserver web administration site: http://gisvm/geoserver , enter Login = admin , Password = gisvm , and select “Remember me” to avoid typing it again in the future:
To add a new Layer, select the left Data > Layers menu and click on “Add a new resource”
Select the existing “postgis_ne” resource, a postgis datasource created to access ne schema of postgis database. And publish the new uploaded layer: ne_10m_roads by clicking on “Publish”
Use the default layer Name = ne_10m_roads , click “Compute from data” and “Compute from native bounds” to calculate both Bounding Boxes limits, and then Save the layer.
To Preview the just created layer, select the Data > Layer Preview menu and click on “Open Layers” link on the “ne_10m_roads” line.
It opens a new browser tab with a interactive webmap to navigate through ne_10m_roads WMS, using open layers:
You can now add it to your QGIS project. Use the “Add WMS/WMTS” layer button, select geoserver-gisvm to Connect to geoserver WMS, click on ne_10m_roads and Add it to your QGIS project. Click Close button to exit the Add layers windows.
GISVM comes installed with a full feature administration tool that you can use to manage it completely: Webmin
To manage the PostgreSQL running inside the GISVM you can use the included web application phpPgAdmin: http://gisvm/phppgadmin, login with postgres, password = gisvm
After login just navigate through postgis database, ne schema and ne_10m_airports table.
It allows the execution of all kinds of PostgreSQL operations, like browse and edit the data, add a new column or DROP (delete) the table.
If you have installed the pgAdmin III on your computer you can also use it to manage the PostgreSQL server running on GISVM. If you don’t, you can install it for free from:
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/pgadmin3/release/v1.22.0/
Run pgAdmin and create a new Server Registration with: Name: gisvm , Host: gisvm , Username: postgres , Password: gisvm
Then use that connection to access the PostgreSQL server running in GISVM:
To manage the ubuntu operating system in GISVM just use the included web application Webmin inside your browser: http://gisvm:10000
Login with: gisvm and password: gisvm
After login you can completely manage the GISVM virtual machine, make updates, create new users, restart running services, configure network, server applications like SAMBA:
GISVM comes with a simple internal site with more information and several other links to help you start using it: http://gisvm
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THAT’S IT, HAVE FUN !!!!!!!!!
GISVM GEOSERVER - QUICKSTART & PASSWORDS by Ricardo Pinho - ricardo.pinho@gisvm.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |