Specific configuration for QGIS mapserver¶

Viewer configuration¶

In the <package>/templates/viewer.js file, define the url of the WFS service which will be used to get the namespace required to parse the WFS response, and indicate that we do not want duplicate layer name above the legend:

cgxp.WMS_FEATURE_NS = "http://www.qgis.org/gml";
cgxp.LEGEND_INCLUDE_LAYER_NAME = false;

Change the DPI value to use the same as in the server:

- OpenLayers.DOTS_PER_INCH = 92;
+ OpenLayers.DOTS_PER_INCH = 2.54 / 100 / 0.00028;

In the cgxp_print plugin add the following configuration:

encodeLayer: { useNativeAngle: true, serverType: 'qgisserver' }
encodeExternalLayer: { useNativeAngle: true, serverType: 'qgisserver' }

Apache configuration¶

In the apache/mapserv.conf.mako do the following changes:

- ScriptAlias /${instanceid}/mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv
+ ScriptAlias /${instanceid}/mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi

- SetEnv MS_MAPFILE ${directory}/mapserver/c2cgeoportal.map
+ SetEnv QGIS_PROJECT_FILE ${directory}/qgisserver.qgs

Application configuration¶

Add an OGC server in the admin interface for QGIS server (type: qgisserver, auth: Standard auth).

In the vars_<project>.yaml file, define:

vars:
    ...
    mapserverproxy:
        default_ogc_server: <ogc server name>
update_paths:
...
- mapserverproxy

Cleanup¶

Remove the mapserver folder:

git rm mapserver

QGIS Desktop configuration¶

OWS configuration¶

You should setup your OWS service in the QGIS project properties in the OWS tab.

You should take care to uncheck the checkbox User Layer ids as names. If this checkbox is enabled you will have unreliabel layers name.

You should check the checkbox Add geometry to feature response in order to make the WMS GetFeatureInfo working correctly.

In the WFS capabilities section, you should check the layers that need to be available in the WFS service.

Finally, your QGIS project layers CRS should all be in the same CSR. This is subject to change.

Connect to Postgres database¶

This section is subject to change when the QGIS plugin is available.

The way you should connect QGIS to the database is based on an external file called. pg_service.conf located in the home directory. The content of this file is as follow:

[geomapfish]
host=localhost
dbname=geomapfish
user=www-data
password=www-data
port=5433

You probably need to create a tunnel with ssh:

ssh -L 5432:localhost:54532 <server>

Note that if you can connect directly to the database, you don’t need this tunnel. Ask to your database administrator the correct parameters. You probably just need to change the host parameter.

You can have several sections. A section start with a name with [] and finish with a blanck line. This file should be a unix file.

On QGIS deskop, when creating a new PostGIS connection, give it a name and use the service name (geomapfish in our example) in the connection parameters form.

Copy past this file in the server, change the parameters to fit with the server settings and add the variable environment setting in the Apache config:

[..]
SetEnv QGIS_PROJECT_FILE ${directory}/qgisserver.qgs
+ SetEnv PGSERVICEFILE path/to/pg_service.conf

Don’t forget to restart Apache.

Deploy notes¶

TODO