Install

System Requirements

Operating System:

Ubuntu 24

Minimum:

4 GB RAM

15 GB Disk

2 vCPU

Note: if you are only publishing qgis2web, the minimum is 2 GB of RAM and 1 CPU.

Using the Script Installers

If you plan to use SSL, be sure to set the hostname

$ hostnamectl set-hostname qpod.webgis1.com

Download QuartzMap or use Git.

Installer scripts are available in the install directory and should be called from the quartzmap directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/AcuGIS/quartzmap-web-client.git
$ cd quartzmap-web-client

Alternatively, you can simply download the binary and unzip:

wget https://github.com/AcuGIS/quartzmap-web-client/releases/download/2.1.0/quartzmap-web-client-2.1.0.zip
unzip -q quartzmap-web-client-2.1.0.zip
cd quartzmap-web-client-2.1.0

If PostgreSQL is not installed, install it using /installer/postgres.sh

$ ./installer/postgres.sh

Run the installer:

$ ./installer/app-install.sh

Optionally, install an SSL certificate using certbot

certbot --apache --agree-tos --email hostmaster@yourdomain.com --no-eff-email -d yourdomain.com

Go to https://yourdomain.com/admin/setup.php to complete the installation

If checks pass, click “Next”

Populate the required fields and click Submit

Log in to the application:

Manual Installation

The installation steps below are from the app-install.sh script. You can adapt as needed.

For below, we will use the following.

APP_DB='quartz'
APP_DB_PASS='SuperSecret';
DATA_DIR='/var/www/data'
CACHE_DIR='/var/www/cache'
APPS_DIR='/var/www/html/apps'

Install dependencies:

apt-get -y install apache2 php-{pgsql,zip,gd,simplexml,curl,fpm} proftpd libapache2-mod-fcgid postfix python3-certbot-apache gdal-bin

Install QGIS Repository

wget --no-check-certificate --quiet -O /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg https://download.qgis.org/downloads/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Check release using lsb_release -cs and create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.sources as below

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://qgis.org/ubuntu
Suites: # use output from lsb_release -cs above
Architectures: amd64
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/qgis-archive-keyring.gpg

Update and install QGIS Server:

    apt-get update -y || true

apt-get install -y qgis-server

Create /etc/logrotate.d/qgisserver with below:

       /var/log/qgisserver.log {
       su www-data www-data
       size 100M
       notifempty
       missingok
       rotate 3
       daily
       compress
       create 660 www-data www-data

Create qgisserver.log and set permissions

mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}/qgis
chown www-data:www-data ${DATA_DIR}/qgis

touch /var/log/qgisserver.log
chown www-data:www-data /var/log/qgisserver.log

Set up Apache

a2enmod ssl headers expires fcgid cgi

Copy conf files from installer directory

cp installer/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

Copy conf files from installer directory and configure

sed "s|\$DATA_DIR|$DATA_DIR|" < installer/qgis_apache2.conf > /etc/apache2/sites-available/qgis.conf

a2ensite 000-default default-ssl qgis
a2disconf serve-cgi-bin

Switch to mpm_event and use HTTP2

a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif http2
a2enconf php8.1-fpm
a2enmod mpm_event

systemctl reload apache2

Set up ProFTPD

sed -i.save '
s/#DefaultRoot~/DefaultRoot ~/
s/# RequireValidShelloff/RequireValidShell off/' /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
systemctl enable proftpd
systemctl restart proftpd

Create the PostgreSQL database

su postgres
createdb quartz
createuser -sd quartz
psql -c "alter user quartz with password 'SuperSecret'"
psql -c "ALTER DATABASE quartz OWNER TO quartz"
CMD_EOF

Create the Data, Cache, and Apps directories

mkdir -p "${APPS_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${CACHE_DIR}"
mkdir -p "${DATA_DIR}"


chown -R www-data:www-data "${APPS_DIR}"
chown -R www-data:www-data "${CACHE_DIR}"
chown -R www-data:www-data "${DATA_DIR}"

Give sync service +w to apps/1/images dir

chmod -R g+w "${APPS_DIR}"

Create the admin/incl/const.php configuration file using values from above

<?php
define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_NAME", "${APP_DB}");
define("DB_USER", "${APP_DB}");
define("DB_PASS", "${APP_DB_PASS}");
define("DB_PORT", 5432);
define("DB_SCMA", 'public');
define("APPS_DIR", "${APPS_DIR}");
define("CACHE_DIR", "${CACHE_DIR}");
define("DATA_DIR", "${DATA_DIR}");
define("SUPER_ADMIN_ID", 1);
define("SESS_USR_KEY", 'quartz_user');
?>

Copy files from quartzmap directory to /var/www/html

cp -r . /var/www/html/
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
rm -rf /var/www/html/installer

systemctl restart apache2

Configure FTP users

groupadd qatusers

for f in create_ftp_user delete_ftp_user update_ftp_user; do
        cp installer/${f}.sh /usr/local/bin/
        chown www-data:www-data /usr/local/bin/${f}.sh
        chmod 0550 /usr/local/bin/${f}.sh
done

cat >/etc/sudoers.d/q2w <<CAT_EOF
www-data ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/create_ftp_user.sh, /usr/local/bin/delete_ftp_user.sh, /usr/local/bin/update_ftp_user.sh
CAT_EOF

Optionally, install an SSL certificate using certbot

certbot --apache --agree-tos --email hostmaster@yourdomain.com --no-eff-email -d yourdomain.com

Go to https://yourdomain.com/admin/setup.php to complete the installation