Tag: qgis server

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Recently I was invited by the colleagues from OpenGIS.ch to lend a hand in a training session about QGIS server.

This was a good opportunity to update my presentation for QGIS3, to fix a few bugs and to explore the powerful capabilities of QGIS server and Python.

As a result, I published the full recipe of a Vagrant VM on github: https://github.com/elpaso/qgis3-server-vagrant

The presentation is online here: http://www.itopen.it/bulk/qgis3-server/

What’s worth mentioning is the sample plugins (I’ll eventually package and upload them to the official plugin site):

• XYZ: add simple XYZ tile server, ready to use within QGIS XYZ connections: https://github.com/elpaso/qgis3-server-vagrant/tree/master/resources/web/plugins/xyz
• custom service, does nothing but shows how to create a Python custom service by exploiting the new service capabilities available in QGIS3: https://github.com/elpaso/qgis3-server-vagrant/tree/master/resources/web/plugins/customservice
• HTTP Basic auth (how to add your auth scheme to QGIS server): https://github.com/elpaso/qgis3-server-vagrant/tree/master/resources/web/plugins/httpbasic
• more …

 

The VM uses 4 different (although similar) deployment strategies:

• good old Apache + mod_fcgi and plain CGI
• Nginx + Fast CGI
• Nginx + standalone HTTP Python wrapped server
• Nginx + standalone WSGI Python wrapped server

Have fun with QGIS server: it was completely refactored in QGIS 3 and it’s now better than ever!

 

Another great QGIS hackfest is gone, and it’s time for a quick report. The location was the Linux Hotel, one of the best places where open source developers could meet, friendly, geek-oriented and when the weather is good, like this time, villa Vogelsang is a wonderful place to have a beer in the garden while talking about software development or life in general. This is a short list of what kept me busy during the hackfest:

• fixed some bugs and feature requests on the official QGIS plugin repo that I’m maintaining since the very beginning
• make the QGIS official plugin repository website mobile-friendly
• QGIS Server Python Plugin API refactoring, I’ve completed the work on the new API, thanks to the ongoing server refactoring it’s now much cleaner than it was in the first version
• attribute table bugs: I started to address some nasty bugs in the attribute table, some of those were fixed during the week right after the hackfest
• unified add layer button, we had a productive meeting where we decided the path forward to implement this feature, thanks to Boundless that is funding the development, this feature is what’s I’m currently working on these days

Thanks to all QGIS donors and funders that made yet another great hackfest possible and in particular to Boundless Spatial Inc. for funding my personal expenses.