<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3841">Dear QGIS community,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3891"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3892">I hope to seek your help on how to deploy the QGIS Server on a ubuntu vmware instance.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3953" dir="ltr">The QGIS server official guide is what I followed. It does not work!!!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3960" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3963" href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/QGIS_Server_Tutorial">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/QGIS_Server_Tutorial</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3982" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4005" dir="ltr">1. After I typed in firefox: <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4054" href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities">http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4055" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4056" dir="ltr">this is what I got:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4057" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4041" dir="ltr">Not Found<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4020"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4021">The requested URL /cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found on this server.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4022">Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4076" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4077" dir="ltr">2. I made a QGIS project file with 1 shapefile in it, and put the project file and shapefile in <code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4125">/usr/lib/cgi-bin, as demonstrated in <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4447" class="enhancr2_46488487-db8b-1319-a45a-092bd810c900" href="https://anitagraser.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/">QGIS Server on Ubuntu Step-by-step</a><br></code></div><div><br></div><div id="enhancr2_46488487-db8b-1319-a45a-092bd810c900" class="yahoo-link-enhancr-card ymail-preserve-class ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-url="https://anitagraser.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/" data-type="yenhancr" data-category="article" data-embed-url="" data-size="medium" dir="ltr" contenteditable="false"> <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4470" href="https://anitagraser.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/" style="text-decoration:none !important; 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line-height:19px; margin:0 0 4px 0;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;word-break:break-word;">QGIS Server on Ubuntu Step-by-step</h2> <div class="card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;word-break:break-word;">This post summarizes my notes about installing QGIS Server on Ubuntu, adding a QGIS project file to the server a...</div> </td> <td style="text-align:right;padding:16px 12px 16px 0;"> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </a></div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4184" dir="ltr"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4125">then I typed in firefox: </code></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4189" dir="ltr"><br><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4233"><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4234" href="http://10.101.21.28/cgi-bin/vienna/qgis_mapserv.fcgi" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi </a></code><a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4235" href="http://10.101.21.28/cgi-bin/vienna/qgis_mapserv.fcgi" rel="nofollow"><br></a><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"> I still got this response:</code></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4418" dir="ltr"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"><br></code></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4253" dir="ltr"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236">Not Found<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4404"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4405">The requested URL /cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found on this server.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4406">Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80<br></code></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4239" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4633" dir="ltr">I do not understand what went wrong or where can I get the right advice, as the QGIS server documentation is highly rare, and frankly dubious.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4647" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4648" dir="ltr">I really love the stated feature of QGIS server: just place a QGIS project on a server, and users can see the contents with any web browser. Could someone in the community help me achieve this?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4649" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4650" dir="ltr">And to the QGIS developers: please consider writing your documentation with more details and pictures. And it'll be much more helpful to include an executable readme/setup program in the QGIS server distribution, so that us users can have some clue. Thank you!<br><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"></code></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4722" dir="ltr"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"><br> </code></div></div></body></html>