Hi,

Here are the two resources I reccommend:

http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/QGIS_Server_Tutorial
for the server

and
https://github.com/qgis/qgis-web-client
the README part
for the installation of the client.

In addition, please review the steps I outlined in my last email, esp. the part about using GetCapabilities vs. GetProjectSettings.

I would first start testing QGIS server, as I said, first manually, and then with QGIS desktop as a client.

In this request you mention below:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

you are missing the "map" parameter

e.g.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/path/to/your/qgis-projects/project.qgs&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

If your .qgs project file would reside at /path/to/your/qgis-projects/project.qgs

Hope this helps as a start,
Andreas

On 2/3/13 7:15 PM, Bo Gusman wrote:
Hi Andreas. Thanks for your reply. I'll answer your questions as best as I can.

First of all, I've relied heavily on Google as it is most always true that someone has the same problems as I do. This hasn't quite worked out this time, though.

> Can you tell us what documentation you worked with?

Installation was based on the following:

http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Download#21-Debian

As I mentioned, I tried installing on Debian (actually TurnkeyLinux a Debian clone that I use quite extensively in other contexts). After configuring the appropriate repositories, the software itself installed without error, but the following threw a "Premature end of script headers" error:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

I would expect that s/w installed from the repos would "just work". Sadly, this most basic test didn't.

I decided to try an install on CentOS 6 as I'm most familiar with that (more years of tearing my hair out, as it were.) Once again, the install worked fine from the repos (using the same websites) and this time GetCapabilities returned the following

    "Configuration file problem"

as part of an XML payload.

Great, I thought, all I have to do is figure out where the configuration file was located and start digging through that to see what's going on. Curiously, I can't find a config file on my system nor any documentation about it.

I do understand that the rich variety of configurations of systems makes it hard (well, impossible) to document all possible cases, but I would expect that a default installation of QGIS on a default installation of any of the supported O/S's would just work.

Late last night I found another post by "underdark" - http://underdark.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/qgis-server-on-ubuntu-step-by-step/ - that I'm about to try. Maybe third time will be the charm! :)

I'll take a look at your other numbered items to see if I can make sense out of them.

Thanks again.

    Bo

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