[Qgis-user] QGIS server in professional use?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 17:23, Mats Elfström <mats.elfstrom at giskraft.se> wrote:
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> I am not too happy if I have to start over on a new machine.

With all due respect, what do you expect as the outcome of this
discussion?  You're complaining about software you obtained for free!
If you're looking for commercial SUPPORT for QGIS then you need to
contract a QGIS support provider (see
https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html). If you're
not experienced enough to setup the server yourself, I strongly
caution you NOT to expose it to the internet and instead pay someone
with the experience to do this for you, and ensure it's done
correctly.

If it's a volunteer task and you don't want to pay for support, then
you NEED to moderate your language and avoid the inflammatory wording.
That's never an effective way to get a good response from the
volunteer side of the community.

Nyall




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> Regards, Mats.E
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> Den mån 18 okt. 2021 kl 04:31 skrev Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com>:
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>> Posting again without screenshot, which apparently caused my previous email to await moderator approval.
>>
>> Mats,
>>
>> I fired up a new Ubuntu 20.04 instance on AWS and did the following 5 steps which got me an XML capabilities document.
>>
>> # standard practice when starting a new instance
>> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
>> # reboot if a new kernel was installed by apt upgrade
>> sudo reboot
>> # install qgis-server and apache web server
>> sudo apt install qgis-server apache2 libapache2-mod-fcgid
>> # enable apache fcgi and cgi
>> sudo a2enmod fcgi cgi
>> sudo systemctl restart apache2
>> # in a web browser you should now get an XML document from the following request
>> http://IP-ADDRESS-OR-HOST-NAME/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
>>
>> And 3 more steps got me a map
>>
>> # load some test data
>> wget https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Training-Data/archive/v2.0.zip
>> sudo apt install unzip
>> unzip v2.0.zip
>> # in a web browser you should get a map from the following request
>> http://IP-ADDRESS-OR-HOST-NAME/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&MAP=/home/ubuntu/QGIS-Training-Data-2.0/exercise_data/qgis-server-tutorial-data/world.qgs&LAYERS=countries&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&CRS=EPSG:4326&WIDTH=400&HEIGHT=200&BBOX=-90,-180,90,180
>>
>> The tutorial tries to cover a lot of ground, maybe too much. And the 8 steps above certainly don't cover enough for a production server. But it's quite unfair to say that "QGIS Server is not ready for production". As Donovan pointed out, there are a lot of moving parts and you have to have some proficiency with all of them if you are doing it on your own.
>>
>> The basic principle is that QGIS Server is serving WMS, WFS, WCS requests via CGI (or Fast-CGI). Apache, Ngix, IIS, Tomcat all can serve CGI and Fast-CGI. Pick whatever operating system and web server you're the most proficient with. Install QGIS Server, start with the simplest configuration that you can, as I did above. Then start tuning it to your needs. If you run into problems ask for help on the list or https://gis.stackexchange.com/ with specific details as to what the problem is.
>>
>> --
>> Richard W. Greenwood
>> www.greenwoodmap.com
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