Geoserver

This guide picks up where the Geodroplet page left off:

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/gettingstarted/web-admin-quickstart/index.html

Logging In

Username/Password

Default username/pw are admin/geoserver. First thing I did was change those.

Server Status

Server status page shows some useful info:

Data

On the left hand side menu, there is a cluster of items labeled "Data".

Here is what "Stores" looks like:

There's also "Layers," "Workspaces," etc. Not clear what all of this is for, I'm just browsing through it... Geoserver documentation isn't saying much about what these things are. (This is the web interface quick start, after all...)

Tutorial

Here is a tutorial: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/gettingstarted/shapefile-quickstart/index.html