In the configuration schema, we did not mention the hardware. Of course, having software redundancy while deploying all components on a single physical server is not a good idea. You can deploy each component on a separate server (and, in a modern server farm, they will probably be virtual ones), but the basic idea is that you should never have all the instances of a component on a single machine.
For the sake of simplicity, and to save you having to buy a lot of hardware, we will use a single Linux machine in the following section:
- As a first step, we will relocate the configuration folder out of the GeoServer web archive. Stop the Tomcat service as follows:
$ sudo service tomcat stop
- Now, move the folder to an ...
