Installing the GeoServer GeoFence Server extension¶

1. Visit the website download page, locate your release, and download: geoserver-2.26.x-geofence-server-plugin.zip

   The download link will be in the Extensions section under Other.

   Warning

   Ensure to match plugin (example 2.26-SNAPSHOT above) version to the version of the GeoServer instance.

1. Extract the files in this archive to the WEB-INF/lib directory of your GeoServer installation.

   Note

   By default GeoFence will store this data in a H2 database and the database schema will be automatically managed by Hibernate.

   The GeoFence documentation explains how to configure a different backed database and configure Hibernate behavior.

2. Add the following system variable among the JVM startup options (location varies depending on installation type): -Dgwc.context.suffix=gwc

3. Restart GeoServer