[Qgis-user] QGIS Server on CentOS 6

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

Here are the two resources I reccommend:

http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/QGIS_Server_Tutorial
for the server

and
https://github.com/qgis/qgis-web-client
the README part
for the installation of the client.

In addition, please review the steps I outlined in my last email, esp. 
the part about using GetCapabilities vs. GetProjectSettings.

I would first start testing QGIS server, as I said, first manually, and 
then with QGIS desktop as a client.

In this request you mention below:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

you are missing the "map" parameter

e.g.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/path/to/your/qgis-projects/project.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

If your .qgs project file would reside at 
/path/to/your/qgis-projects/project.qgs

Hope this helps as a start,
Andreas

On 2/3/13 7:15 PM, Bo Gusman wrote:
> Hi Andreas. Thanks for your reply. I'll answer your questions as best 
> as I can.
>
> First of all, I've relied heavily on Google as it is most always true 
> that someone has the same problems as I do. This hasn't quite worked 
> out this time, though.
>
> > Can you tell us what documentation you worked with?
>
> Installation was based on the following:
>
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Download#21-Debian
>
> As I mentioned, I tried installing on Debian (actually TurnkeyLinux a 
> Debian clone that I use quite extensively in other contexts). After 
> configuring the appropriate repositories, the software itself 
> installed without error, but the following threw a "Premature end of 
> script headers" error:
>
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities 
>
>
> I would expect that s/w installed from the repos would "just work". 
> Sadly, this most basic test didn't.
>
> I decided to try an install on CentOS 6 as I'm most familiar with that 
> (more years of tearing my hair out, as it were.) Once again, the 
> install worked fine from the repos (using the same websites) and this 
> time GetCapabilities returned the following
>
>     "Configuration file problem"
>
> as part of an XML payload.
>
> Great, I thought, all I have to do is figure out where the 
> configuration file was located and start digging through that to see 
> what's going on. Curiously, I can't find a config file on my system 
> nor any documentation about it.
>
> I do understand that the rich variety of configurations of systems 
> makes it hard (well, impossible) to document all possible cases, but I 
> would expect that a default installation of QGIS on a default 
> installation of any of the supported O/S's would just work.
>
> Late last night I found another post by "underdark" - 
> http://underdark.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/ 
> - that I'm about to try. Maybe third time will be the charm! :)
>
> I'll take a look at your other numbered items to see if I can make 
> sense out of them.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>     Bo