Please use the repository https://github.com/geoserver/geofence instead.
GeoFence is a java web application that provides an advanced authentication/authorization engine for GeoServer using the interface described in GSIP 57.
GeoFence provides a graphical user interface to administer GeoServer users and authorization rules. Furthermore, a quite complete REST API allows the programmatic administration of the rules and their ancillary data.
Once integrated with GeoFence, GeoServer will send authorization queries to GeoFence using a configurable internal protocol (by default it uses Spring remoting over HTTP).
GeoFence core modules and GUI are free and Open Source software, released under the GPL v3 license.
The part of GeoFence that shall be installed as a module into GeoServer (the probe) is released under the same license as GeoServer (which is GPL v2.0), as it implements a GeoServer Java API.
You will need the GeoFence .war file, and the probe module to be installed into your GeoServer instance. In this list you can find a GeoServer .war file with the GeoFence probe preinstalled.
This is the list of the currently available resources for using GeoFence:
- Latest GeoFence .war file
- Latest GeoFence probe for GeoServer Master
- Latest GeoFence probe for GeoServer 2.6.x
- Latest GeoFence probe for GeoServer 2.5.x
- Latest GeoServer Master with GeoFence probe preinstalled
- Latest GeoServer 2.6.x with GeoFence probe preinstalled
- Latest GeoServer 2.5.x with GeoFence probe preinstalled
Once you have downloaded the resources you need, please follow the instructions on the GeoFence installation wiki page.