[Qgis-developer] Installed Qgis on Ubuntu - what do I do next?

[Alex Mandel]

Once your service is up and running any WMS client can consume it.
Quickest way to test, add the WMS layer to QGIS. There are lots of other
options out there desktop, web, etc.

The most common web client being Openlayers, this will require work on
your part, mainly a few lines of javascript in a web page. You might be
able to use it directly in Geocommons or in Mapfish (also takes setup).

I believe there is work on a qgis-web-client but nothing I know of that
can be installed and run out of the box yet.

All kind of depends on your end goal, is it to produce a web page and/or
provide a WMS for others to connect to?

Enjoy,
Alex

On 10/15/2011 09:43 AM, Christopher Stark wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> thank you this works. Is there a more comfortable way of displaying a
> map - with a web-frontend-page or do I have to type in every command
> manually like this
> 
> e.g.:
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/world/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&
> REQUEST=GetMap&BBOX=-36.215710,6.817432,-9.700450,58.551008&
> CRS=EPSG:4326&WIDTH=1077&HEIGHT=552&LAYERS=Continent,Country,Cities&
> STYLES=,,&FORMAT=image/jpeg&DPI=96
> 
> It seems to be very complicated and time consuming to work like this (as
> I'm a big GUI-fan)
> 
> Best regards
> Christopher
> 
> 
> 
> Am 15.10.2011 16:25, schrieb Marco Hugentobler:
>> Hi Christopher
>>
>> This error message shows that it works (you just did not make a valid WMS 
>> request). To publish your project, you need to give the file path to the .qgs 
>> project in the url and the wms request parameters.
>>
>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/home/me/myproject.qgs&
>>
>> is the WMS url
>>
>> http://localhost/cgi-
>> bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/home/me/myproject.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
>>
>> should return an xml document with the available layer, styles, crs, etc.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marco
>>
>> Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2011, 12.23:56 schrieb Christopher Stark:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> thank you. I did all this but now I get this error message:
>>>
>>> This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
>>> with it. The document tree is shown below.
>>> <ServiceExceptionReport version="1.3.0"><ServiceException
>>> code="ServiceNotSpecified">Service not specified. The SERVICE parameter
>>> is mandatory</ServiceException></ServiceExceptionReport>
>>>
>>> Questions below:
>>>
>>> Am 14.10.2011 21:50, schrieb Giovanni Manghi:
>>>>> What should I do as first steps after installing?
>>>> if working correctly, the address
>>>>
>>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>>>>
>>>> should return
>>>>
>>>> <ServiceExceptionReport version="1.3.0"><ServiceException
>>>> code="OperationNotSupported">Please check the value of the REQUEST
>>>> parameter</ServiceException></ServiceExceptionReport>
>>>>
>>>> Then just create a project in QGIS (use absolute paths) and in the
>>>> project properties configure the parameters in the "WMS server" tab.
>>> which paramenters are important here? What does absolute paths mean in
>>> this regard
>>>
>>>> Create a folder in
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
>>>>
>>>> and copy into it your QGIS project and a copy of qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>>>>
>>>> your server address will be
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/myprojectfolder/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> -- Giovanni --
>>> Best regards
>>> Christopher
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