[Qgis-developer] QGIS Mapserver on Mac OSX error (wiki)

[William Kyngesburye]

Thanks for updating the wiki, I completely forgot after the QGIS 1.6 release.

On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Patrice Vetsel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'v tried the wiki :
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/QGIS_mapserver_tutorial#Mac_OS_X
> 
> I'v made some corrections, but the last big problem is that, with the qgis-mapserver.conf, apache can't be succesfully launched.
> I had to comment out the FastCgiConfig line.

It should work with this line.  This sets some reasonable values for the fastcgi parameters, and the defaults may not work well for a mapserver process that needs more time to do its thing.

You should check if there are any errors when Apache tries to start that would help figure out why it won't start.  The Apache logs might have something if it's a configuration error: /var/log/apache2/error.log.

A binary problem might show up in /Library/Logs/CrashReporter.

> Doing this i get a :
> "Service not specified. The SERVICE parameter is mandatory" on http://localhost/qgis-mapserv/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
> I don't know if this message tell me that qgis-mapserver is working or not.
> 
The wiki tried to interpret the URL text in the example as a real link, and you need to make sure to include that trailing '?' that is after the link icon.  

> Help is wanted to finish this tutorial :)
> 
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