This repo will help you get started getting a dataset into ERDDAP. It includes a demonstration dataset.

We will install using Docker, which installs ERDDAP into a 'container' on your computer, and avoids the need for you to install and configure all the components that ERDDAP relies on to work, such as Java, Apache, and Tomcat.

• Install docker and docker-compose. Depending on your operating system, docker-compose may come with Docker
• cd into the directory of this git repo and run docker-compose up. This may take a while to run the first time as it needs to dowload the Docker images
• See if it works by going to http://localhost:8070/erddap

• put your data files (eg .nc or .csv files) into a new folder in the 'datasets' folder.

• Run sh GenerateDatasetsXml.sh in the terminal from this directory:

  • use EDDTableFromAsciiFiles for .csv files and EDDTableFromMultidimNcFiles for netCDF (.nc) files.
  • 'Starting directory' is your new directory where your files are located, eg: /datasets/sample-dataset
  • 'File name regex' use '.*' (without the quotes) to match all files in this directory

If this was successful, it will create a snippet which is output to bigParentDirectory/logs folder as well as to the screen. Paste that snipped into the file config/datasets.xml

• datasets.xml is where the datasets are configured. There are too many options to list here, see https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/download/setupDatasetsXml.html for help. Once you have edited it to your liking, make note of the datasetID you are working on.

• To test your configuration, run sh DasDds.sh and then type in your dataset ID when prompted.

After a change is made to a dataset, you can either restart erddap with docker-compose restart, or reload just that dataset by running sh reload_dataset <your-dataset-id-here>:

• Use docker-compose restart for this. You shouldn't need to use this for dataset changes but sometimes it helps.

docker-compose down

• See http://localhost:8070/erddap/status.html for status
• See bigParentDirectory/logs/log.txt for more information
• Test your dataset with the DasDds.sh script