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Installing QGis Server on Ubuntu Saucy

I thought it would nice to have an easy simple GIS data server set up, so here are some notes on installing QGis Server on Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy).

I have a quite powerful server sitting in my office, serving my main website and a few other things, but it is not under heavy load, and it has plenty of disk space - so why not install QGis Server to play with and see how it goes?

I first installed the packages according to this tutorial, using the packages provided by Canonical. I found that this is an older version of QGis (1.7) and I had to do some figuring out to get the cgi module running well with Apache. After I have figured out that the fcgid module loaded properly I still had the problem that the actual fcgi program did not execute, but it was offered as a download. This is the httpd.conf setting that fixed it for me:

<IfModule fcgid_module> FcgidIdleTimeout 60 FcgidMinProcessesPerClass 2 FcgidMaxProcessesPerClass 20 Alias /map/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi SetHandler fcgid-script AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </IfModule>

Now, after playing with it a bit and noticing that there was some compatibility issues + newer features in later QGis server that would be interesting, I decided to install using the qgis.org package.

I started off with the instructions specified by Anita Graser in a blog post, but there were some things that didn't work as they should, here is what I used: