Running GeoNetwork under Tomcat

GeoNetwork can be run under Tomcat.

Method 1

1. Install Tomcat.
2. Get a copy of GeoNetwork from SVN (or use an installed version)
3. Build GeoNetwork. (See HowToCompile for instructions.)

• option 1: From your GeoNetwork build, copy the subdirectories of the web directory to the webapps directory of Tomcat. (So you will have webapps/geonetwork, etc., in your Tomcat installation.)
• option 2: Put a file called geonetwork.xml in {$CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost with the following contents (adjust the path as necessary):

  <Context docBase="C:\Path To\devtree\sourceforge\geonetwork\trunk\web\geonetwork"
           privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" antiJARLocking="false">
  </Context>
  

5. Edit Tomcat's server.xml to set parameters as you wish.
6. Start Tomcat.

Unfortunately . . . at present stopping Tomcat does not shut down GeoNetwork cleanly. This is documented at ​http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-5.5-hangs-when-hosting-GN-2.2.0--SEC%3DUNCLASSIFIED--td17660763.html. You need to make either of the modifications suggested there before you build.