<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3665">Currently, when I type the following in firefox:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3066" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3065" href="http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=pudong.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3&REQUEST=GetProjectSettings">http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=pudong.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3&REQUEST=GetProjectSettings</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3064" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3197" dir="ltr">An sensible XML is returned.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3217" dir="ltr">But if I use <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3663" href="http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=pudong.qgs&SERVICE=WMS">http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=pudong.qgs&SERVICE=WMS</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3379" dir="ltr">then the response is:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3664" dir="ltr"><ServiceException code="InvalidFormat">Output format '' is not supported in the GetMap request</ServiceException><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3444" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3477" dir="ltr">From the perspective of a very newbie, I thought the purpose of the .qgs file is to provide QGIS server all the necessary parameters such as layers and projections and bounding box coordinates, so that QGIS server displays what we normally see in QGIS desktop by default. WYCIWYG. Obviously my understanding is wrong.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3828" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3829" dir="ltr">Could someone teach me to tame the beast? Now that the QGIS server seems running, which web address would make QGIS server miraculously display in firefox the QGIS desktop content of a project?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3930" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463285691680_3944" dir="ltr">Thanks a million.<br></div></div></body></html>