Running GeoNetwork under Tomcat

GeoNetwork can be run under Tomcat.

1. Install Tomcat.
2. Get a copy of GeoNetwork from SVN (or use an installed version)
3. Build GeoNetwork. (See HowToCompile for instructions. If you will be using McKoi, use GAST to initialize the database.)
4. Configure Tomcat:

• 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.