QGIS2Mapbender

Description

QGIS plugin to transfer your QGIS Server project on your server and publish your QGIS Server WMS in Mapbender.

Installation and Requirements

Installing the plugin

• To install the plugin, simply copy the folder with the plugin code into your QGIS profile folder:
  • Windows: C:\Users{USER}\AppData\Roaming\QGIS\QGIS3\profiles{PROFILE}\python\plugins\
  • Linux: /home/{USER}/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/{PROFILE}/python/plugins

Requirements on your local system

• The QGIS project must be saved in the same folder as the data.
• Install fabric2 e.g. using the QGIS console if the library is not already installed:

  import pip
  pip.main(['install', 'fabric2'])
  

Requirements on your server

• QGIS Server is installed on your server.
• Mapbender is installed on your server.
• Create at least one template application in Mapbender (that will be cloned and used to publish a new WMS) or an application that will be used to publish a new WMS. These applications should have at least one layerset:
  • layerset named "main" (default layerset for adding a new WMS to the application) OR
  • layerset named with any other name (in this case, the name of the layerset should be specified when using the plugin)

Docker

• QGIS Server and Mapbender can be run as Docker containers.

Here is a sample docker-compose.yml file to set up a docker for Mapbender and QGIS Server. This configuration requires to have a folder volumes/qgis/ that contains a QGIS project file called /worldmap/worldmap.qgz

services:
  mapbender:
    image: mapbender/mapbender
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/mapbender/db:/var/mapbender/application/var/db:rw
  qgis:
    image: qgis/qgis-server:3.36.3-noble
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 80:80
    environment:
      - QGIS_PROJECT_FILE=/qgis/projects/worldmap/worldmap.qgz
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/qgis:/qgis/projects:ro

Configuring the connection to the server

The figure below shows a typical configuration of the connection to the server and its adaptation to a Docker virtualisation.

A few comments on a standard configuration with and without Docker:

Description	Without Docker	With Docker
QGIS-Projects Path: This is the path on the server where QGIS projects are uploaded. For Docker, it is necessary to specify the mount volume of the running container for QGIS Server.	/data/qgis-projects	{path_to_docker_compose.yml}/volumes/qgis/ for the example above
QGIS-Server URL: The relative path from the server address to access QGIS Server services.	cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi example of getCapabilities: http://mapbender-qgis.wheregroup.lan/cgi-bin/qgis\_mapserv.fcgi?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities	/ows example of getCapabilities: http://mb-qgis-docker.wheregroup.lan/ows/?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
Mapbender Application Path: The path to the Mapbender application.	/data/mapbender/application	{path_to_docker_compose.yml}
Mapbender bin/console Command: Mapbender's command-line tool for performing various operations (such as adding a new WMS or managing a Mapbender project). When using Docker, this command must be executed inside the running container.	bin/console	docker compose exec mapbender bin/console
Mapbender Base URL: The home page of Mapbender where all applications are listed.	mapbender/	:8080/

Support

[email protected]

License

The plugin is licensed under the attached GNU General Public License.