Installation guide

New in version 3.2.

Important: GeoNetwork requires a Java 8 environment (JRE) to be installed on your system. Later versions of Java will not work at present. This must be done prior to installation.

Before you can use GeoNetwork on your own computer, you need to install it. There are several different ways to install GeoNetwork:

• Installing using a ZIP file
• Installing using a WAR file
• Building from Source Code
  • System Requirements
  • Tools
  • Building & Running
• Installing a third-party distribution
• Installing remote index
  • Manual installation
  • Install using Maven
  • Check installation
  • Configure connection

After installing the application, you can configure the following:

• Configuring the database
  • Introduction
  • H2 database
  • Configuring a database via config files
  • Configuring a database via JNDI
  • Configuring a database via environment
  • Logging
  • Summary
• Customizing the data directory
  • Creating a new data directory
  • Setting the data directory
  • Java System Property
  • Bean configuration
  • Using a S3 object storage
  • Structure of the data directory
  • Advanced data directory configuration
  • Check the configuration
• Logging
  • Customising the log file location
  • Setting the Loglevel
  • Log4j
• Using multinode mode
  • Overview
  • Configuration
• Configuring printing of the map
• Loading templates and sample data
  • Signing in and loading templates