[Qgis-user] QGIS Server installation on Windows via XAMPP

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:32 PM Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/15/20 12:50 PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>
> >> @Allesandro: you say a standalone development server. But (even on
> >> windows) it's not that you run a webserver on port 80 if you run
> >> qgis_mapserver or qgis_mapserver.exe, is it?
> >
> > Yes, it's a full standalone HTTP development server.
> >
> >> If I run it here it's
> >> initing all QGIS machinery and ends with:
> >> INFO Server[178177]: No server python plugins are available
> >> seemingly waiting for a connection, but I do not know how....
> >
> > try calling it with '-h'
>
> Ah, duh... thanks...
>
> YES, so it run's by default on port localhost:8000
>
> And it is also working (tested) on Windows:
>
> Saving a simple project into c:\tmp
> Starting qgis_mapserver.exe
> And in browser I go to:
> http://localhost:8000/?map=c:\tmp\nl.qgs&service=WMS&request=getcapabilities
> And I have a valid capabilities document!
>
> Thanks Ale! Works like a charm ( even on Windooz ;-) )
>
> Is it an idea (feature request?) to let qgis_mapserver.exe spit out an
> INFO-message line telling the user that "Started a minimal http-server
> on localhost port 8000 for testing purposes" or so?
> OR is the code itself not aware it is being ran as a standalone http dev
> server at that moment?

That's what it is supposed to do:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/server/qgis_mapserver.cpp#L208

I've no idea why you don't see it on windows.

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Alessandro Pasotti
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