Local Geoserver Setup

This a guide to help setup geoserver with postgis on your local machine.

Create a geoserver directory in your desired location

Download the following docker compose file and place it inside your geoserver directory

Open

Create the following 3 directories within the geoserver directory:

additional_libs, geoserver_data, postgis

Run docker compose up

Once geoserver is up and running you should be able to visit it at http://localhost:8081/geoserver

You can login with admin / geoserver