Install Geoserver on Windows

I was recently trying to install Geoserver on a windows machine, until now I was using version 2.15, which had a?Windows Installer?provided directly , so it was pretty straight forward, but when I switched to latest on. BAM!! No more easy was of downloading?Installer?and following series of ‘Next’ buttons. As any sane developer, I turned towards Official docs on how to?install Binary. But It was pretty confusing at this part

Here is how you can do it:

Step 1 : Download JAVA JRE 8

Note that Geoserver works only on?JRE 8?so if you have JRE 9, please uninstall it and download JRE 8 from?here. Depending upon your system download x64 or x32 bit version. On downloading you can install it like any other usual software. Please pay attention to the folder in which you are installing (e.g. C:/Program Files/) . Once you do that you need to add it in?Environment variables?as well which we’ll do afterwards

Step 2: Download Geoserver

Head over to?https://geoserver.org/release/stable/?and click on platform independent Binary

once the .zip is downloaded, unzip it in the same folder where use JAVA folder lives (C:/ Program files/)

Step 3: Setting up environment Variables

We’ll setup 3 Variables in order to run geoserver successfully. Search for environment variables in search menu and open window. Inside?Advance tab?Click on?Environment variables?button to Open another window.

Under?System Variables?add 3 new variables as follows :

Copy the Variable name as it is and in Variable Value use?Browse Directory?button to target to given folder

Step 4: Running Geoserver

Once all the steps are completed, you can head over to?geoserver/bin?and double click on?startup batch file?to run the geoserver

Geoserver Interface

Geoserver can be accessed via?https://localhost:8080/geoserver/web/?with following user cred?Username :?admin?and?Password :?geoserver

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