1 # Running Your Own Instance
3 ### Can I import multiple countries and keep them up to date?
5 You should use the extracts and updates from https://download.geofabrik.de.
6 For the initial import, download the countries you need and merge them.
7 See [OSM Help](https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/48843/merging-two-or-more-geographical-areas-to-import-two-or-more-osm-files-in-nominatim)
8 for examples how to do that. Use the resulting single osm file when
11 For updates you need to download the change files for each country
12 once per day and apply them **separately** using
14 ./utils/update.php --import-diff <filename> --index
16 See [this issue](https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/60#issuecomment-18679446)
17 for a script that runs the updates using osmosis.
19 ### Can I import negative OSM ids into Nominatim?
21 See [https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/64662/nominatim-flatnode-with-negative-id]()
23 ### Missing XML or text declaration
25 The website might show: `XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location.`
27 Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning of your `settings/local.php` file.
32 ### Can a stopped/killed import process be resumed?
34 "I accidentally killed the import process after it has been running for many hours. Can it be resumed?"
36 It is possible if the import already got to the indexing stage.
37 Check the last line of output that was logged before the process
38 was killed. If it looks like this:
41 Done 844 in 13 @ 64.923080 per second - Rank 26 ETA (seconds): 7.886255
43 then you can resume with the following command:
46 ./utils/setup.php --index --create-search-indices --create-country-names
49 If the reported rank is 26 or higher, you can also safely add `--index-noanalyse`.
52 ### PHP "open_basedir restriction in effect" warnings
54 `PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): open_basedir restriction in effect.`
56 You need to adjust the [open_basedir](http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir) setting
57 in your PHP configuration (`php.ini file`). By default this setting may look like this:
59 open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/
61 Either add reported directories to the list or disable this setting temporarily by
62 dding ";" at the beginning of the line. Don't forget to enable this setting again
63 once you are done with the PHP command line operations.
66 ### PHP timzeone warnings
68 The Apache log may contain lots of PHP warnings like this:
69 `PHP Warning: date_default_timezone_set() function.`
71 You should set the default time zone as instructed in the warning in
72 your `php.ini` file. Find the entry about timezone and set it to
75 ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
76 ; http://php.net/date.timezone
77 date.timezone = 'America/Denver'
82 echo "date.timezone = 'America/Denver'" > /etc/php.d/timezone.ini
85 ### nominatim.so version mismatch
87 When running the import you may get a version mismatch:
88 `COPY_END for place failed: ERROR: incompatible library "/srv/Nominatim/nominatim/build/module/nominatim.so": version mismatch`
90 pg_config seems to use bad includes sometimes when multiple versions
91 of PostgreSQL are available in the system. Make sure you remove the
92 server development libraries (`postgresql-server-dev-9.5` on Ubuntu)
93 and recompile (`cmake .. && make`).
96 ### I see the error: "function transliteration(text) does not exist"
98 Reinstall the nominatim functions with `setup.php --create--functions`
99 and check for any errors, e.g. a missing `nominatim.so` file.
102 ### The website shows: "Could not get word tokens"
104 The server cannot access your database. Add `&debug=1` to your URL
105 to get the full error message.
108 ### On CentOS the website shows "Could not connect to server"
110 `could not connect to server: No such file or directory`
112 On CentOS v7 the PostgreSQL server is started with `systemd`.
113 Check if `/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service` contains a line `PrivateTmp=true`.
114 If so then Apache cannot see the `/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432` file. It's a good security feature,
115 so use the [preferred solution](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-7/#adding-selinux-security-settings).
117 However, you can solve this the quick and dirty way by commenting out that line and then run
119 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
120 sudo systemctl restart httpd
123 ### Website reports "DB Error: insufficient permissions"
125 The user the webserver, e.g. Apache, runs under needs to have access to the Nominatim database. You can find the user like [this](https://serverfault.com/questions/125865/finding-out-what-user-apache-is-running-as), for default Ubuntu operating system for example it's `www-data`.
127 1. Repeat the `createuser` step of the installation instructions.
129 2. Give the user permission to existing tables
132 GRANT usage ON SCHEMA public TO "www-data";
133 GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO "www-data";
136 ### Website reports "Could not load library "nominatim.so"
138 Example error message
141 SELECT make_standard_name('3039 E MEADOWLARK LN') [nativecode=ERROR: could not
142 load library "/srv/nominatim/Nominatim-3.1.0/build/module/nominatim.so":
143 /srv/nominatim/Nominatim-3.1.0/build/module/nominatim.so: cannot open shared
144 object file: Permission denied
145 CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function make_standard_name(text) line 5 at assignment]
148 The user the webserver, e.g. Apache, runs under needs to have access to that file. Same for the user the Postgres runs as. You can find the user like [this](https://serverfault.com/questions/125865/finding-out-what-user-apache-is-running-as), for default Ubuntu operating system for example it's `www-data`.
150 The permission need to be read&executable by everybody, e.g.
153 -rwxr-xr-x 1 nominatim nominatim 297984 build/module/nominatim.so
156 Try `chmod a+r nominatim.so; chmod a+x nominatim.so`.
158 ### Setup.php fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
160 Make sure you have the Postgres extensions hstore and postgis installed.
161 See the installation instruction for a full list of required packages.
164 ### Setup.php reports "Cannot redeclare getDB()"
166 `Cannot redeclare getDB() (previously declared in /your/path/Nominatim/lib/db.php:4)`
168 The message is a bit misleading as PHP needs to load the file `DB.php` and
169 instead re-loads Nominatim's `db.php`. To solve this make sure you
170 have the [Pear module 'DB'](http://pear.php.net/package/DB/) installed.
174 ### I forgot to delete the flatnodes file before starting an import.
176 That's fine. For each import the flatnodes file get overwritten.
177 See [https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/52419/nominatim-flatnode-storage]()
178 for more information.