QGIS Server Quickstart¶

QGIS Server provides a web map service (WMS) based on libraries from the QGIS desktop application.

This Quick Start describes how to:

update an existing QGIS project and render it with QGIS Server

create a new QGIS project and open the WMS directly in a browser

Contents

Start GeoExt viewer ¶

OSGeoLive contains an example of web map viewer based on the GeoExt Javascript framework and using QGIS Server for rendering the map.

Click Geospatial ‣ Desktop GIS ‣ QGIS Desktop. You should see a browser window with a web map viewer showing a world map.

Alternatively, you can access the application using a browser through http://localhost/qgis_server

We will now change the map styling using QGIS.

Click Geospatial ‣ Desktop GIS ‣ QGIS Desktop
Choose Project ‣ Open from the menu bar.
Select QGIS-NaturalEarth-Example.qgs and press Open.
- You should see the same world map rendered by QGIS. We will now change river styling and look at the result in the web map viewer.
Double click ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines in the Layers tree.
Change the color in Outline Options to a different blue tone.
Press OK. Rivers are now rendered in a new color.
Save the project with Project ‣ Save.
Reopen the web browser.
Zoom in. You will now see rivers rendered in the same new color.

Reopen QGIS.
Choose Project ‣ New.
Click Layer ‣ Add Layer ‣ Add Vector Layer.
Browse to dataset /home/user/data/natural_earth2/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.shp.
Press Open. You should see all world countries.
Save the project with Project ‣ Save.
Use file name /home/user/world.qgs and press Save.
Open the WMS URL. You should see all world countries, this time rendered by QGIS Server.