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Installing the GWC S3 extension

The installation process is similar to other GeoServer extensions:

  1. Login, and navigate to About & Status > About GeoServer and check Build Information to determine the exact version of GeoServer you are running.

  2. Visit the website download <download> page, change the Archive tab, and locate your release.

    From the list of Other extensions download GWC S3 tile storage.

    • {{ release }} example: gwc-s3
    • {{ version }} example: gwc-s3

    Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example {{ release }} above).

  3. Extract the contents of the archive into the WEB-INF/lib directory in GeoServer. Make sure you do not create any sub-directories during the extraction process.

  4. Restart GeoServer.

  5. To verify the installation was successful, to "Tile Caching", "Blobstores" and create a new blobstore, the S3 option show be available:

    The S3 option showing while creating a new blobstore