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Emanuele Tajariol edited this page Apr 14, 2015 · 11 revisions

GeoFence

GeoFence is a java web application that provides an advanced authentication/authorization engine for GeoServer using the interface described in GSIP 57.

GeoFence provides a graphical user interface to administer GeoServer users and authorization rules. Furthermore, a quite complete REST API allows the programmatic administration of the rules and their ancillary data.

Once integrated with GeoFence, GeoServer will send authorization queries to GeoFence using a configurable internal protocol (by default it uses Spring remoting over HTTP).

License

GeoFence core modules and GUI are free and Open Source software, released under the GPL v2 license.

Getting GeoFence

You will need the GeoFence .war file, and the probe module to be installed into your GeoServer instance.

This is the list of the currently available resources for using GeoFence:

Stable

Stable branch of GeoFence (2.2) is compatible with GeoServer 2.6 and 2.7.

Master

Master branch of GeoFence (3.0) is compatible with GeoServer master (2.8).

Once you have downloaded the resources you need, please follow the instructions on the GeoFence installation wiki page.

Documentation

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