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<div class="toc1"><a href="#QuickInstallation">Quick Installation</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatInstall">Download Metacat Package</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#CreateDirs">Create Metacat Directories</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallJava">Install Java</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallApache">Install Apache</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallTomcat">Install Tomcat</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#InstallPostgres">Install PostgreSQL Database</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickInstallMetacatWar">Install Metacat War</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickInstallLsidWar">Install LSID War</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#ConfigureMetacatInstall">Configure Metacat</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#QuickUpdate">Quick Update</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#DownloadMetacatUpdate">Download Metacat Package</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#BackupApplication">Backup Existing Metacat Installation</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#QuickUpdateMetacatWar">Update Metacat War</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#PreInstallation">Pre-Installation</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#MinRequirements">Minimum Requirements</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwarePostgres">PostgreSQL</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#AdditionalSoftwareAnt">Ant</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#DownloadingMetacat">Download Metacat and Get War File</a></div>
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<a name="RestartTomcat"></a><div class="header1">Restart Tomcat</div>
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<p>Once you have successfully installed Metacat, there is one more step. Tomcat
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(and Apache if you have Tomcat integrated with it) must be restarted. To do
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this, login as the user that runs your tomcat server (often "tomcat"),
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go to <tomcat_home>/bin and type: </p>
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<p>In the Tomcat startup messages you should see something in the log file like:</p>
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<div class="code">Metacat: [WARN]: Metacat (1.8.0) initialized. [edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.MetaCatServlet]</div>
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If you see that message Tomcat has successfully loaded the Metacat servlet.
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Next, try to run your new servlet. Go to a web browser and type:</p>
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<div class="code">http://yourserver.yourdomain.com/yourcontext/</div>
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<p>You should substitute your context name for "yourcontext" in the url above.
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If everything is working correctly, you should see a query page followed
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Apache you will probably have to type</p>
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<div class="code">http://yourserver.yourdomain.com:8080/yourcontext/</div>
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<a name="UpgradeTroubleshooting"></a><div class="header2">Troubleshooting</div>
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<p>If you see something like:
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<div class="code">java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using 'yourservanme:0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.</div>
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<p>You should add this line: </p>
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<div class="code">JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true $JAVA_OPTS"</div>
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<p>at the first line of the catalina.sh file in the tomcat bin directory. The reason is that
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GeoServer uses X11 windows to draw graphics.</p>
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<a name="UpgradeConfigureMetacat"></a><div class="header2">Configure Metacat</div>
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<p>Once you see the Metacat configuration screen, you can follow the instructions in the
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<a href="./metacatconfigure.html"> Configuring Metacat Section</a>
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to complete the internal configuration of Metacat.</p>
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<a name="Registry"></a><div class="header1">Web Based Registry</div>
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<p>The registry allows users to upload simple metadata documents directly from the web. See the separate
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<a href="registry_installation.html">Registry Installation Guide</a>.</p><br/><br/>
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