[Qgis-user] QGIS Mapserver - Project administration and updates, documentation

[Albin Blaschka]

Hello Alessandro, hello Richard!

Yes, I will in the next days - and thanks Richard for the step by step 
guide!
Albin

Am 2018-01-05 um 09:43 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> On 05-01-18 09:35, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Albin Blaschka
>> <albin.blaschka at standortsanalyse.net
>> <mailto:albin.blaschka at standortsanalyse.net>> wrote:
>>
>>      Hello all,
>>
>>      Following an update on my Linux-Server (Ubuntu), where I have an
>>      instance of qgis mapserver running, I stumbled upon a small gotcha -
>>      it stopped working.
>>
>>      The reason was simple: The binary of qgis_mapserv.fcgi got updated,
>>      but when I set up qgis mapserver, I followed the suggestion as
>>      described under
>>
>>      https://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/server/getting_started.html#installation
>>      <https://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/server/getting_started.html#installation>
>>
>>      under the heading "Server the project" to put a project into a
>>      separate directory with the .qgs file and a *Copy* of qgis_mapserv.fcgi
>>
>>
>>
>> I think that spreading copies of the CGI binary on your directory tree
>> is bad practice and calls for troubles, a symlink works surely better
>> but there are many other ways to serve a particular project depending on
>> the URL (any rewrite module for your favourite server would be sufficient ).
>>
>> Would you mind making a pull request and fix the documentation?
> Yes, please do:
>
> - create a github account if you net have one
> - go to latest version of the page:
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/server/getting_started.html#installation
> - click the 'fix me' link in the footer which brings you to
> -
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/edit/master/source/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/server/getting_started.rst
> - you will be asked to create a fork, do that, update the docs (just
> using Github editor...), and do a pull request
> - if all fails, then please create an issue with a pointer to this
> discussion: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues
>
> For all other people: PLEASE try to help QGIS to get uptodate docs by at
> least try to write/update some docs every now and then. I think the plan
> above is doable for every tech savvy QGIS user...
> And again: if all fails: write an issue, and preferably attach a new
> text to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde


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