I can confirm that X11 is required by some features like printing and maybe some others. Also before switching to docker, on bare metal, we were using Xvfb to provide X11 to QGIS and not a full X.org installation.
This is due how QT renders work if I understood correctly. Cheers, Daniele --- Daniele Viganò http://daniele.vigano.me On mobile, please excuse my brevity. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 11:45 Henrik Uggla <[email protected] wrote: > Hi Andreas! > > I really can't see why Qgis Server would need X. If I build Qgis Server on > a server with X, will the resulting package work on a server without X? > > It would be very helpful if you could share your configuration with me. > > Regards, > Henrik > > ________________________________________ > Från: Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> > Skickat: den 7 januari 2019 11:26 > Till: Henrik Uggla > Kopia: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] Building Qgis Server only > > Hi Henrik, > > You can now build QGIS Server without desktop, but not without X. You > still need X for PDF generation (GetPrint command). > > If you are interested, I have docker configurations for QGIS Server 2.x. > and 3.x based on Ubuntu and NginX server. Still struggling a bit with NGinX > URL forwarding, but hoping to solve it tomorrow with the help of Marco B. > > I could share the configuration, if it helps for you. > > Greetings, > > Andreas > > On 2019-01-07 11:01, Henrik Uggla wrote: > > I would like to create a Qgis Server Docker container based on Alpine. Is > it possible to build Qgis Server, without the desktop applications, on a > server that doesn't run X? > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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