Maven Quickstart

This guide is designed to get developers up and running as quick as possible. For a more comprehensive guide see the Maven Guide.

Check out source code

Check out the source code from the git repository.:

git clone git://github.com/geoserver/geoserver.git geoserver

To list the available branches.:

% git branch
   2.15.x
   2.16.x
 * main

Choose main for the latest development.:

% git checkout main

Or chose a stable branch for versions less likely to change often:

% git checkout 2.16.x

In this example we will pretend that your source code is in a directory called geoserver, but a more descriptive name is recommended.

Command line build

#. Change directory to the root of the source tree and execute the maven build command:

cd geoserver/src
mvn install -DskipTests -T 2C

This will result in significant downloading of dependencies on the first build.
  1. A successful build will result in output that ends with something like the following:

    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Reactor Summary:
    [INFO]
    [INFO] GeoServer 2.15-SNAPSHOT ............................ SUCCESS [  3.735 s]
    [INFO] Core Platform Module ............................... SUCCESS [  1.926 s]
    [INFO] Open Web Service Module ............................ SUCCESS [  1.079 s]
    [INFO] Main Module ........................................ SUCCESS [  7.371 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer Security Modules ......................... SUCCESS [  0.172 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer Security Tests Module .................... SUCCESS [  2.040 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer JDBC Security Module ..................... SUCCESS [  0.904 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer LDAP Security Module ..................... SUCCESS [  1.823 s]
    [INFO] Web Coverage Service Module ........................ SUCCESS [  0.812 s]
    [INFO] Web Coverage Service 1.0 Module .................... SUCCESS [  1.432 s]
    [INFO] Web Coverage Service 1.1 Module .................... SUCCESS [  2.370 s]
    [INFO] Web Coverage Service 2.0 Module .................... SUCCESS [  0.970 s]
    [INFO] Web Feature Service Module ......................... SUCCESS [  3.658 s]
    [INFO] Web Map Service Module ............................. SUCCESS [  1.899 s]
    [INFO] KML support for GeoServer .......................... SUCCESS [  0.757 s]
    [INFO] gs-rest ............................................ SUCCESS [  1.977 s]
    [INFO] GeoWebCache (GWC) Module ........................... SUCCESS [  1.059 s]
    [INFO] gs-restconfig ...................................... SUCCESS [  1.448 s]
    [INFO] gs-restconfig-wcs .................................. SUCCESS [  0.218 s]
    [INFO] gs-restconfig-wfs .................................. SUCCESS [  0.229 s]
    [INFO] gs-restconfig-wms .................................. SUCCESS [  0.333 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer Web Modules .............................. SUCCESS [  0.055 s]
    [INFO] Core UI Module ..................................... SUCCESS [  6.905 s]
    [INFO] WMS UI Module ...................................... SUCCESS [  0.884 s]
    [INFO] GWC UI Module ...................................... SUCCESS [  1.086 s]
    [INFO] WFS UI Module ...................................... SUCCESS [  0.351 s]
    [INFO] Demos Module ....................................... SUCCESS [  0.744 s]
    [INFO] WCS UI Module ...................................... SUCCESS [  0.261 s]
    [INFO] Security UI Modules ................................ SUCCESS [  0.115 s]
    [INFO] Security UI Core Module ............................ SUCCESS [  1.241 s]
    [INFO] Security UI JDBC Module ............................ SUCCESS [  0.239 s]
    [INFO] Security UI LDAP Module ............................ SUCCESS [  0.209 s]
    [INFO] REST UI Module ..................................... SUCCESS [  0.204 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer Web Application .......................... SUCCESS [  3.266 s]
    [INFO] Community Space .................................... SUCCESS [  0.054 s]
    [INFO] GeoServer Extensions 2.15-SNAPSHOT ................. SUCCESS [  0.055 s]
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Total time: 26.451 s (Wall Clock)
    [INFO] Finished at: 2018-08-27T15:52:42+03:00
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
  2. Navigate to the web-app folder:

    cd web/app
    
  3. Run GeoServer:

    mvn jetty:run
    
  4. Use the browser to open:

    http://localhost:8080/geoserver/