django-geonode-gssync

About gssync

gssync stands for GeoServer SYNChronization. It is a Django app for Geonode that enable manual triggering of synchronization between geonode and geoserver from the web interface.

It is released under GNU-GPL licence version 3.

Detailed documentation is in the "docs" directory.

Installation

Manual install

Here below are listed the instruction for install:

1. If you are using docker, stop services

   docker-compose down

2. Add "gssync" to your INSTALLED_APPS by adding the following lines at the end of ./geonode/settings.py file:

   # Addition of gssync app
   INSTALLED_APPS += ('geonode.gssync',)

3. Include the gssync URLconf in ./geonode/urls.py file like this:

   if "geonode.gssync" in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
       urlpatterns += [  # '',
           url(r'^gssync/', include('geonode.gssync.urls')),
       ]

4. Move gssync folder inside ./geonode django project folder:

5. If you are using docker, rebuild geonode and restart services (this may stop the web site for a while):

   docker-compose down && docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d

6. Once geonode has restarted, authneticated users with admins permissions can reach the page /gsync to perform synchronisation

Install with pip

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How to use

Once the app is running, go through the following steps :

1. Publish a PostGIS table with GeoServer

2. With admin permissions, go to example.com/gsync/ (replace example.com by your own domain name).

   • You should reach the page below:

   • If 404 is returned, check if your user has administration rights.

3. Click on the button Sync with GeoServer. Once the green chekmark appear, you can navigate to the Data page. Your layers should be available here.

4. Be careful, these layers are published with Geonode's default permissions. So you must check the layer permissions right after publication.