Installation Guide

This guide will explain the steps to install the Explorer on your own server. Sadly, this is not as easy as it should be and installing all the software stack can be very time consuming depending of your environment. Try it at your own risk, but you can always contact us.

Dependencies

In order to properly install the Explorer, you must install and configure the following software:

Core system

• Apache Server 2.2
• Tomcat 7
• Postgresql 9.3
• Postgis 2.1

Map support

Please refer to Tile Server Setup section of the tile server project.

Explorer setup

Source

See how to setup the source code in the Source setup section.

Database setup

For complete procedure, please refer to PostgreSQL Setup section of the 'liger-data-access' project.

Generated file setup

See Download Results Setup section.

Configurations

See Configuration section.

Add data

The Explorer was built to work with data inserted by the lontra-harvester tool. The Explorer will work regardless the tool used to import the data as long as the database schema and rules are respected. If you are confident about your data there is an alternative. You can use the DarwinCoreArchive2SQL tool to transfer you DarwinCore archive into the occurrence_raw table but you will have to write a simple program to fill the occurrence table. All the methods are available in the liger-data-access project to load the raw model and save the occurrence model.