[Qgis-user] "Official" QGIS Web Client?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Chris, 

QWC2 has login and authentication (since fairly recently) - it was
required for hiding away topics and layers and for enabling digitizing.
As far as I know it needs a serverside component for that. Probably
documentation did not keep up yet, about this new feature. You can ask
the Sourcepole folks about it - either Pirmin Kalberer or Sandro Mani. 

As far as I know, many customers also have quite diverse and ideas what
services they want to authenticate against (LDAP, Microsoft AD, Google,
OpenID, plain password, etc.). So probably such an authentication module
on the server needs to support different authentication
providers/plugins. But I am sure that the above people can inform you
what they support. 

Greetings and good luck for chosing the "best" web client that suits
your needs ;-) 

Andreas 

On 2018-09-03 22:12, Christopher Gray wrote:

> Andreas,  
> 
> Thank you for the description, I have taken some more time to look into both QWC2 and Lizmap. QWC2 seems very nice [although I would like if the menu remained showing on the larger screens.] I have a tendency to want to use QWC2 since it is intended to integrate with QGIS projects and appears to be in development alongside QGIS, but Lizmap is very nice as well. 
> 
> Do you happen to know if QWC2 has any authentication features yet?  
> 
> Thank you, Chris 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 4:36 AM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Chris, 
> 
> From these three clients you mention, I would currently only consider QWC2. It is now in a good state and deployed in several provinces and cities as production version. Already now, QWC2 has exceeded the functionality of QWC1 and it is based on modern, up-to-date libraries and responsive. Also, QWC2 is actively in development. 
> 
> The demo application is not because QWC2 is not in production state, but it should help you to get a start project. 
> 
> QWC1, and I assume EQWC is based on old versions of OpenLayers and not fully responsive. 
> 
> As Paolo mentioned, there is also Lizmap. 
> 
> In your case, I would evaluate QWC2 and Lizmap. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2018-09-03 04:33, Christopher Gray wrote: 
> I've found 3 QGIS related web clients:  
> 
> QGIS Web Client (QWC1) 
> QGIS Web Client 2 (QWC2) 
> Enhanced QGIS Web Client (EQWC) 
> 
> The QGIS website still references QWC1, while the QWC1 page says it is no longer maintained and suggests QWC2. The QWC2 page lists itself as a "demo application" which seems to suggest it is in-progress, but perhaps I am misinterpreting this. The EQWC page looks like a functioning option but suggests it is based on QWC1 which I understand was considered outdated...  
> 
> EQWC seems to perform nicely (based on their demo maps), and has user and guest authentication which seems very important for map access. 
> 
> Anyhow, which of these is considered the current "QGIS Web Client" / most appropriate to use at this time? 
> 
> [In my specific situation, this will be my first web-client setup. I'm preparing to setup a publicly available map for my town and a private map for my family farm in the town (That will require authentication to access).] 
> 
> Thank you, Chris 
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