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NAME
IIPSRV - IIPImage Image Server
DESCRIPTION
IIPImage is an advanced high-performance feature-rich multi-protocol image server for web-
based streamed viewing and zooming of ultra high-resolution images. It is designed to be
fast and bandwidth-efficient with low processor and memory requirements. The system can
comfortably handle gigapixel size images as well as advanced image features such as 8, 16
and 32 bit depths, CIELAB colorimetric images and scientific imagery such as multispectral
images. Source images can be either TIFF (tiled multi-resolution) or JPEG2000 (if
enabled).
The image server can also dynamically export images in JPEG format and perform basic image
processing, such as contrast adjustment, gamma control, conversion from color to
greyscale, color twist, region extraction and arbitrary rescaling. The server can also
export spectral point or profile data from multispectral data and apply color maps or
perform hillshading rendering.
SYNOPSIS
Command line use:
iipsrv.fcgi --bind host : port
FILES
iipsrv.fcgi main executable
iipsrv.log log file: usually in /var/log/ or /tmp/
OPTIONS
There are several parameters that can be supplied to iipsrv.fcgi These should be set via
the appropriate web server configuration directives if running via Apache or Lighttpd. See
EXAMPLES for details of web server configuations. Alternatively these parameters can be
set via environment settings if running directly from the command line or from spawn-fcgi.
LOGFILE
The log file the module will (attempt) to write to. If no value is given, no log
will be written. Make sure the server process has write access to this directory.
Paths with spaces in them may not work correctly.
VERBOSITY
The level of logging. 0 means no logging, 1 is minimal logging, 2 lots of debugging
stuff and 3 even more debugging stuff and 4 a very large amount indeed. Logging is
only enabled if LOGFILE has also been defined.
JPEG_QUALITY
The default JPEG quality factor for compression when the client does not specify
one. The value should be between 1 (highest level of compression) and 100 (highest
image quality). The default is 75.
MAX_IMAGE_CACHE_SIZE
Max image cache size to be held in RAM in MB. This is a cache of the compressed
JPEG image tiles requested by the client. The default is 5MB.
FILESYSTEM_PREFIX
This is a prefix automatically added by the server to the beginning of each file
system path. This can be useful for security reasons to limit access to certain
sub-directories. For example, with a prefix of "/home/images/" set on the server, a
request by a client for "image.tif" will point to the path
"/home/images/image.tif". Any reverse directory path component such as ../ is also
filtered out. No default value.
MAX_CVT
The maximum permitted image pixel size returned by the CVT command in conjunction
with WID or HEI or RGN. The default is 5000. This prevents huge requests from
overloading the server
MAX_LAYERS
The maximum number of quality layers to decode for image that support progressive
quality encoding, such as JPEG2000. Ignored for other file formats. By default half
of the available layers are decoded. If set to -1, all the available layers will be
decoded.
WATERMARK
TIFF image to use as watermark file. This image should be not be bigger the tile
size used for TIFF tiling. If bigger, it will simply be cropped to the tile size.
If smaller, the watermark will be positioned randomly within the available space.
The image can be either colour or grayscale.
WATERMARK_PROBABILITY
The probability that a particilar tile will have a watermark applied to it. 0 means
never, 1 means always.
WATERMARK_OPACITY
The opacity (between 0 and 1) applied to the watermark image.
MEMCACHED_SERVERS
A comma-delimitted list of memcached servers with optional port numbers. For
example: localhost,192.168.0.1:8888,192.168.0.2.
MEMCACHED_TIMEOUT
Time in seconds that cache remains fresh. Default is 86400 seconds (24 hours).
FILENAME_PATTERN
Pattern that follows the name stem for a panoramic image sequence. eg: "_pyr_" for
FZ1_pyr_000_090.tif. In this example, just supply FZ1 to the FIF command. The
"000" indicates the vertical angle and "090" the horizontal. This is only relevant
to 3D image sequences. The default is "_pyr_".
CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing setting. Disabled by default. Set to "*" to enable
for all domains or specify a single domain. See http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ for
more details on CORS.
BASE_URL
Set a base URL for use in certain protocol requests if web server rewriting has
taken place and the public URL is not the same as that supplied to iipsrv
CACHE_CONTROL
Set the HTTP Cache-Control header. See
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9 for a full list of
options. If not set, header defaults to "max-age=86400" (24 hours).
EXAMPLES
iipsrv will be automatically started by both Apache and Lighttpd. But not by Nginx or Java
Application Servers. See the example configuration in the README or included with your
distribution for the appropriate syntax. Note that Apache has two FCGI modules:
mod_fastcgi and mod_fcgid which are configured differently.
You may also wish to run iipsrv as a standalone program. To do this, use the following
syntax to bind to a particular port and listen for FCGI (not HTTP) requests. In the
following example, iipsrv will bind to port 9000 on the machine's IP address 192.168.0.1:
% iipsrv.fcgi --bind 192.168.0.1:9000
There is additionally a --backlog parameter that is optional and sets the socket backlog
value. The backlog value specifies the number of requests can be queued and, therefore,
increases the number of concurrent connections that iipsrv can handle and is set to 2048
by default. For example:
% iipsrv.fcgi --bind 192.168.0.1:9000 --backlog 1024
Note that the backlog parameter must be specified after the bind parameter and argument.
Note also that this value may be limited by the operating system. On Linux kernels <
2.4.25 and Mac OS X, the backlog limit is hard-coded to 128, so any value above this will
be limited to 128 by the OS. If you do provide a backlog value, verify whether the setting
/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn should be updated.
It is also possible to run via the spawn-fcgi program. Set up any parameters via
environment variables and run the command as follows to bind, as in the previous example
to port 9000 on IP address 192.168.0.1:
% spawn-fcgi -f src/iipsrv.fcgi -a 192.168.0.1 -p 9000
For use in stand alone or spawn-fcgi mode, you will then need to configure your webserver
on the same machine or another to direct FCGI protocol requests to this IP address and
port.
For web servers such as Nginx or Java Application Servers such as Tomcat, JBoss or Jetty,
which cannot automatically start FCGI processes, iipsrv will need to be started in stand
alone mode or via spawn-fcgi.
PROTOCOLS
The IIPImage server supports the Internet Imaging Protocol (IIP) , the Zoomify protocol,
the DeepZoom and the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) protocols.
Client applications supporting these protocols should be able to use iipsrv as their back-
end server. IIP is the most feature rich of the 4 protocols and allows access to the more
advanced imaging server features.
IMAGE PATHS
The image paths given to the server must be absolute paths on the server machine (eg. via
the FIF variable for the IIP protocol: FIF=/images/test.tif) and not paths relative to the
web server document root location. If the FILESYSTEM_PREFIX server directive has been set
(see OPTIONS above), then this prefix is automatically pre-pended to all requests to
generate the absolute image path. Make sure that the server process owner is able to
access and read the images.
Note that images do not need to be directly accessible externally by the client via the
web server.
SEE ALSO
IIPImage website: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net
AUTHORS
Ruven Pillay <ruven@users.sourceforge.net>