[Qgis-developer] Relative paths in mapserver

[Marco Hugentobler]

>One question I'm not sure about is if wrapping the fcgi through a shell
>script decreases performance (by bypassing fcgi advantages).
>May be @Marco_Hugentobler (who knows more about fcgi and performance)
>can say word on this.

Invoking the server with script restarts the qgis_mapserv.fcgi 
executable each time. Therefore, no benefit from all the server cache. 
I'm expecting the performance to decrease significantly.
Performance-wise, it is better to go with Apache rewriting.

Regards,
Marco

On 20.06.2013 09:35, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> you can even set a bunch of environment variables e.g.
>
> export SHAPE_ENCODING=""
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/apps/qgis-master/lib
> exec /home/user/apps/qgis-master/bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>
> for testing a freshly compiled master
>
> One question I'm not sure about is if wrapping the fcgi through a shell
> script decreases performance (by bypassing fcgi advantages).
> May be @Marco_Hugentobler (who knows more about fcgi and performance)
> can say word on this.
>
> Marco
>
> Am 20.06.2013 08:35, schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
>> Il 20/06/2013 07:56, Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. ha scritto:
>>> if you want to shorten URLs you also can pass the request through a
>> shell script (or
>>> whatever script executable by apache and called instead og
>> qgis_mapserv.fcgi) and
>>> change the parameters. Something similar to this file "foo.cgi":
>>> <code>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>> export QUERY_STRING=$QUERY_STRING'&map=/absolute/path/to/my/project.qgs'
>>> exec /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>>> </code>
>> Interesting hack, thanks.
>> All the best.
>>


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