<html><head></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_1463046412193_14413">Hi Nick,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_14414"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_14415">The QGIS server official documentation link you suggested is a truncated copy from <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_14512" href="http://www.itopen.it/qgis-server-python-plugins-ubuntu-setup/">http://www.itopen.it/qgis-server-python-plugins-ubuntu-setup/</a> . It's truncated because the original post started with apache setup but the QGIS server doc doesn't. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15269" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15270" dir="ltr">A newbie user like me had seen both links, and frankly was appalled. 1. Why would an official guide be a half-copy of someone else's work? Where is the respect to copyright? 2. The original page described a helloworld example. helloworld examples in most other projects come with a documentation. Where is the documentation in the case of qgis server? 3. QGIS server was branded 'easiest to use. just put your qgis project file in the folder and it can be seen from browsers'. Where is the documentation and example for that darling functionality? <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15065" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15066" dir="ltr">The bottom line is: if you want users to use something you invested programming efforts into, please write a detailed and explanatory documentation. The frustration of users will eventually kill the reputation of your dev team. And the time you spend on answering questions will be magnitudes above the time to write a decent documentation.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15227" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_15512" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463046412193_14340"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:56 PM, Nicolas Boisteault <boisteault@observatoire-environnement.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3101061390"><div>
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<div>You should follow this documentation : http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/ogc_server_support.html</div>
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<div>Le 2016-05-12 11:22, Kuan Song a écrit :</div>
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<div id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3841">Dear QGIS community,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_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 dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3953">The QGIS server official guide is what I followed. It does not work!!!</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3960"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_3963" target="_blank" href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/QGIS_Server_Tutorial">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/QGIS_Server_Tutorial</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4005">1. After I typed in firefox: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4054" target="_blank" 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>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4056">this is what I got:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4041">Not Found<br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4020" clear="none"><br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4021" clear="none">The requested URL /cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found on this server.<br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4022" clear="none">Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4077">2. I made a QGIS project file with 1 shapefile in it, and put the project file and shapefile in <code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4125">/usr/lib/cgi-bin, as demonstrated in <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv3101061390enhancr2_46488487-db8b-1319-a45a-092bd810c900" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4447" target="_blank" href="https://anitagraser.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/">QGIS Server on Ubuntu Step-by-step</a><br clear="none"></code></div>
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<div class="yiv3101061390card-description" style="font-size:11px;line-height:15px;color:#999;">This post summarizes my notes about installing QGIS Server on Ubuntu, adding a QGIS project file to the server a...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4184"><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4125">then I typed in firefox: </code></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4189"><br clear="none"><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4233"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4234" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://10.101.21.28/cgi-bin/vienna/qgis_mapserv.fcgi">http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi </a></code><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4235" target="_blank" onclick="return theMainWindow.showLinkWarning(this)" href="http://10.101.21.28/cgi-bin/vienna/qgis_mapserv.fcgi"><br clear="none"></a><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"> I still got this response:</code></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4418"><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"> </code></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4253"><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236">Not Found<br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4404" clear="none"><br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4405" clear="none">The requested URL /cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found on this server.<br id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4406" clear="none">Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80<br clear="none"></code></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4239"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4633">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 dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4647"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4648">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 dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4649"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4650">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 clear="none"><code id="yiv3101061390yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463044097517_4236"></code></div>
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