1 # Install Nominatim in a virtual machine for development and testing
3 This document describes how you can install Nominatim inside a Ubuntu 14
4 virtual machine on your desktop/laptop (host machine). The goal is to give
5 you a development environment to easily edit code and run the test suite
6 without affecting the rest of your system.
8 The installation can run largely unsupervised. You should expect 1-2h from
9 start to finish depending on how fast your computer and download speed
14 1. [Virtualbox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
16 2. [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)
20 git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
22 If you haven't used `--recursive`, then you can load the submodules using
31 1. Start the virtual machine
35 2. Log into the virtual machine
39 3. Import a small country (Monaco)
41 You need to give the virtual machine more memory (2GB) for an import,
42 see `Vagrantfile`. Otherwise 1GB is enough.
44 See the FAQ how to skip this step and point Nominatim to an existing database.
47 # inside the virtual machine:
50 wget -O /home/vagrant/Nominatim/data/country_osm_grid.sql.gz http://www.nominatim.org/data/country_grid.sql.gz
51 wget --no-verbose --output-document=../data/monaco.osm.pbf http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/monaco-latest.osm.pbf
52 ./utils/setup.php --osm-file ../data/monaco.osm.pbf --osm2pgsql-cache 1000 --all 2>&1 | tee monaco.$$.log
55 To repeat an import you'd need to delete the database first
57 dropdb --if-exists nominatim
63 Vagrant maps the virtual machine's port 8089 to your host machine. Thus you can
64 see Nominatim in action on [locahost:8089](http://localhost:8089/nominatim/).
66 You edit code on your host machine in any editor you like. There is no need to
67 restart any software: just refresh your browser window.
69 PHP errors are written to `/var/log/apache2/error.log`.
71 With `echo` and `var_dump()` you write into the output (HTML/XML/JSON) when
72 you either add `&debug=1` to the URL (preferred) or set
73 `@define('CONST_Debug', true);` in `settings/local.php`.
78 ## Running functional tests
80 Tests in `/features/db` and `/features/osm2pgsql` have to pass 100%. Other
81 tests might require full planet-wide data. Sadly even if you have your own
82 planet-wide data there will be enough differences to the openstreetmap.org
83 installation to cause false positives in the other tests (see FAQ).
85 To run the full test suite
88 NOMINATIM_SERVER=http://localhost:8089/nominatim lettuce features
92 NOMINATIM_SERVER=http://localhost:8089/nominatim lettuce features/api/reverse.feature
94 To run specific tests you can add tags just before the `Scenario line`, e.g.
97 Scenario: address lookup for non-existing or invalid node, way, relation
101 NOMINATIM_SERVER=http://localhost:8089/nominatim lettuce -t bug-34
104 ## Running unit tests
106 cd ~/Nominatim/tests-php
116 ##### Will it run on Windows?
118 Yes, Vagrant and Virtualbox can be installed on MS Windows just fine. You need a 64bit
122 ##### Why Monaco, can I use another country?
124 Of course! The Monaco import takes less than 30 minutes and works with 2GB RAM.
126 ##### Will the results be the same as those from nominatim.openstreetmap.org?
128 No. Long running Nominatim installations will differ once new import features (or
129 bug fixes) get added since those usually only get applied to new/changed data.
131 Also this document skips the optional Wikipedia data import which affects ranking
132 of search results. See [Nominatim installation](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation) for details.
134 ##### Why Ubuntu and CentOS, can I test CentOS/CoreOS/FreeBSD?
136 There is a Vagrant script for CentOS available. Simply start your box
137 with `vagrant up centos` and then log in with `vagrant ssh centos`.
138 In general Nominatim will also run in the other environments. The installation steps
139 are slightly different, e.g. the name of the package manager, Apache2 package
140 name, location of files. We chose Ubuntu because that is closest to the
141 nominatim.openstreetmap.org production environment.
143 You can configure/download other Vagrant boxes from [vagrantbox.es](http://www.vagrantbox.es/).
146 ##### How can I connect to an existing database?
148 Let's say you have a Postgres database named `nominatim_it` on server `your-server.com` and port `5432`. The Postgres username is `postgres`. You can edit `settings/local.php` and point Nominatim to it.
150 pgsql://postgres@your-server.com:5432/nominatim_it
152 No data import necessary, no restarting necessary.
154 If the Postgres installation is behind a firewall, you can try
156 ssh -L 9999:localhost:5432 your-username@your-server.com
158 inside the virtual machine. It will map the port to `localhost:9999` and then
159 you edit `settings/local.php` with
161 pgsql://postgres@localhost:9999/nominatim_it
163 To access postgres directly remember to specify the hostname, e.g. `psql --host localhost --port 9999 nominatim_it`
166 ##### My computer is slow and the import takes too long. Can I start the virtual machine "in the cloud"?
168 Yes. It's possible to start the virtual machine on [Amazon AWS (plugin)](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws) or [DigitalOcean (plugin)](https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean).