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I want to run geoserver as a background process:

sudo -b sh /usr/share/geoserver-2.8.3/bin/startup.sh

However, whenever I interact with the geoserver on the web surface, the process is suddenly re-appearing in the terminal an blocking further interaction. How do I prevent that?

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  • Have you tried running it through screen
    – nmtoken
    Commented Apr 16, 2016 at 7:56
  • try ./startup.sh &
    – yogiwinardhana
    Commented Dec 11, 2019 at 11:43

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If you are running GeoServer from the command line then you are only testing it and so should leave it running in a spare console window until done.

In a production environment you need to use the .war file in a servlet container such as tomcat or jetty which will be run using service (or systemd or whatever your system uses) so that you don't need to worry about starting them.

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  • Actually, I want to use geoserver standalone in production as well. Why is that wrong?
    – Lokomotywa
    Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 15:20
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    Because the bundled jetty is very old and it is unoptimized. Also you will need to log on and restart GeoServer each time. Finally you should not be running a service as root.
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 16:28
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You can run Geoserver as a service in the background without any issues. There are init scripts for each linux distros to run it as a service.

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