I am trying to install the GDAL extension (I want to use ECW files in GeoServer). So here is what I did so far:
1) downloaded the GDAL extension and extracted to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoServer 2.3.4\webapps\geoserver\WEB-INF\lib
2) downloaded GDAL data zip and extracted to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoServer 2.3.4\gdal_data
made GDAL_DATA environment variable to this folder.
3) downloaded the native libraries and extracted to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoServer 2.3.4\gdal_native
added this folder to the Path environment variable.
4) restarted GeoServer.
I was trying to follow this guide: geoserver GDAL guide
but it's not really clear…
I can't see any result after all these steps, not even an error message…
What did I do wrong?
Best Answer
I was unable to get the GDAL plugins to work until I uninstalled OSGeo4W and deleted the GDAL files in C:\OSGeo4W directory. GeoServer still works alongside QGIS standalone version with no issues.