[Qgis-user] Configuring QGIS server on Ubuntu 20.4

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 9:46 AM Mats Elfström <mats.elfstrom at giskraft.se>
wrote:

> Hi Alessandro!
>

Please keep the conversation on the user list so that others can benefit
from it or jump in and give some advice.


> I'd be glad to help. Just to make sure, which of these three docs is valid?
> You linked to the first, but I used the second, since I am on QGIS 3.20.
>
>
> https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/server_manual/getting_started.html#installation-on-debian-based-systems
>
>
They all probably have the same content.

These are probably best suit for 3.20 even if they (theoretically) might
contain features that are not yet available for 3.20 :

https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/server_manual/getting_started.html#installation-on-debian-based-systems
>
> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/pdf/en/QGIS-testing-ServerUserGuide-en.pdf
>


> I have tried Docker, but my cloud computing provider did not support that
> kind of containerization. Tomcat works fine, though. Would it be possible
> to build a QGIS server *.war file?
>

No, AFAIK war is for java applications.

Best regards.



> I'll be back.
>
> Mats.E
>
> Den tors 30 sep. 2021 kl 21:25 skrev Alessandro Pasotti <
> apasotti at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Hi, I'm sorry to hear that: we have even recently spent a considerable
>> amount of time (and money, because it was financed with a grant) to rewrite
>> the QGIS Server documentation with detailed information about deployment
>> [1], we have clearly missed the goal if you couldn't find what you needed
>> in these pages.
>>
>> It would be useful to know what exactly were your problems and what did
>> you try to do.
>>
>> A common problem with server deployments is that there are multiple ways
>> of doing things, it really depends on what you need, for example we are now
>> commonly using docker containers (there are many out there that provide a
>> QGIS Server working installation almost without the need to manually
>> configure anything).
>>
>> Also, I tend to use nginx, but apache is totally fine too.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/server_manual/getting_started.html#installation-on-debian-based-systems
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 8:24 PM Mats Elfström <mats.elfstrom at giskraft.se>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>> I am setting up a Geodata stack. I have installed PostgreSQL/Postgis and
>>> Geoserver under Tomcat9 and FME:d a lot of data to PostGIS. All is up and
>>> running.
>>> Then I installed QGIS 3.20. No problems so far. Then I decided to try
>>> QGIS server as an alternative to Geoserver. But I am having trouble
>>> configuring QGIS server, or Apache2 rather.
>>> Over the past 5-6 years, I have spent more time and energy than I care
>>> to mention trying to make QGIS server run on Windows servers. Asking for
>>> advice on those occasions, I have more than once got the advice to use
>>> Linux instead, since no QGIS developers really know Windows servers. And
>>> Linux would be much easier.
>>> Fair enough. So now I am on Ubuntu, sudoing this and that and it works
>>> pretty well.
>>> Apart from QGIS server. I find the same mess of incomplete or
>>> contradictory instructions. No wonder QGIS server is under-used.
>>> If Linux(Ubuntu) is so simple, how come no one has put together a
>>> working script to configure and deploy QGIS server on a standard setup?
>>> I am most disappointed, having spent yet 5 hrs that I will never get
>>> back on QGIS server.
>>>
>>> Regards, Mats.E
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> *GisKraft*, Geodatakonsult
>>>
>>> Mats Elfström, Marsvinsholms stationsväg 80, 271 93 Ystad, Sweden
>>> tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / www.giskraft.se
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>>
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>
>
> --
>
>
> *GisKraft*, Geodatakonsult
>
> Mats Elfström, Marsvinsholms stationsväg 80, 271 93 Ystad, Sweden
> tel: +46 70 595 39 35 / www.giskraft.se
>


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