I'm trying to add a GeoTiff-file to GeoServer through adding a raster data source, but whenever I try to add my file, I get the error 'Could not list layers for this store, an error occurred retrieving them: Failed to create reader from file:///mnt/hgfs/VMSharedData/newmaps/download.tiff and hints null'.
I suspect it's something with the information of the file, but I can't find out what. I've ran gdalinfo on it and this was the output:
To confirm that the problem is within the file, I've tried downloading another GeoTiff file from TrueMarble, and that file did indeed upload correctly.
This is the gdalinfo output from the TrueMarble file:
Does anyone know what the error might be? Does my file lack any data?
I'm afraid I don't know much about GIS in general, so any help people here could provide me would be very valuable.
UPDATE — EXTRA INFORMATION:
I couldn't open the incorrect file with GIMP, but it opened just fine with QGIS.
The GeoServer log says "Projection not supported" when I try to upload the incorrect GeoTIFF-file.
Best Answer
It seems to be the sinusoidal projection that makes the trouble. These links tell how to add sinusoid projection as a custom projection into Geoserver and Geotools http://spatialreference.org/ref/sr-org/modis-sinusoidal/geoserver/ https://www.mail-archive.com/geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05993.html
However, discussion is three years old and the method to add the projection is not simple. I suggest to ask from geoserver-users list if adding the sinusoid projection is easier with the current Geoserver versions.