Geoserver
From Wildsong
Getting GeoServer going at HupI.org
I removed OpenJDK (which is purported to be suboptimal for use with GeoServer) and installed Oracle JRE 6.
Removing the JDK also removed about 400 pounds of other packages, including Tomcat 6. This is okay really, since Tomcat 7 is the latest release anyway.
I downloaded Tomcat 7 in binary tar.gz form and unpacked it in /usr/local/java. I started it using the script in the bin directory called startup.sh and then went to http://hupi.org:8080/ and voila! There is is. Tres bien!!!
Then I moved the geoserver files into the Tomcat webapps directory and surfed to http://hupi.org:8080/geoserver/ and this too worked.
Connecting GeoServer to PostGIS
Links
Some notes on using WFS-T http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jreyes/2007/08/03/geotools-wfs-t-update-request/
