Otherwise it's best to start the full setup from the beginning.
-### PHP "open_basedir restriction in effect" warnings
-
- PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): open_basedir restriction in effect.
-
-You need to adjust the
-[open_basedir](https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir)
-setting in your PHP configuration (`php.ini` file). By default this setting may
-look like this:
-
- open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/
-
-Either add reported directories to the list or disable this setting temporarily
-by adding ";" at the beginning of the line. Don't forget to enable this setting
-again once you are done with the PHP command line operations.
-
-
-### PHP timezeone warnings
-
-The Apache log may contain lots of PHP warnings like this:
- `PHP Warning: date_default_timezone_set() function.`
-
-You should set the default time zone as instructed in the warning in
-your `php.ini` file. Find the entry about timezone and set it to
-something like this:
-
- ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
- ; https://php.net/date.timezone
- date.timezone = 'America/Denver'
-
-Or
-
-```
-echo "date.timezone = 'America/Denver'" > /etc/php.d/timezone.ini
-```
-
-### nominatim.so version mismatch
-
-When running the import you may get a version mismatch:
-`COPY_END for place failed: ERROR: incompatible library "/srv/Nominatim/nominatim/build/module/nominatim.so": version mismatch`
-
-pg_config seems to use bad includes sometimes when multiple versions
-of PostgreSQL are available in the system. Make sure you remove the
-server development libraries (`postgresql-server-dev-13` on Ubuntu)
-and recompile (`cmake .. && make`).
-
-
-### I see the error "ERROR: permission denied for language c"
-
-`nominatim.so`, written in C, is required to be installed on the database
-server. Some managed database (cloud) services like Amazon RDS do not allow
-this. There is currently no work-around other than installing a database
-on a non-managed machine.
-
-
-### I see the error: "function transliteration(text) does not exist"
-
-Reinstall the nominatim functions with `nominatim refresh --functions`
-and check for any errors, e.g. a missing `nominatim.so` file.
-
### I see the error: "ERROR: mmap (remap) failed"
This may be a simple out-of-memory error. Try reducing the memory used
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO "www-data";
```
-### Website reports "Could not load library "nominatim.so"
+### Setup fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
-Example error message
+Make sure you have the PostgreSQL extensions "hstore" and "postgis" installed.
+See the installation instructions for a full list of required packages.
-```
- SELECT make_standard_name('3039 E MEADOWLARK LN') [nativecode=ERROR: could not
- load library "/srv/nominatim/Nominatim-3.1.0/build/module/nominatim.so":
- /srv/nominatim/Nominatim-3.1.0/build/module/nominatim.so: cannot open shared
- object file: Permission denied
- CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function make_standard_name(text) line 5 at assignment]
-```
-The PostgreSQL database, i.e. user `postgres`, needs to have access to that file.
+### UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
-The permission need to be read & executable by everybody, but not writeable
-by everybody, e.g.
+Make sure that the operating system's locale is UTF-8. With some prebuilt
+images (e.g. LXC containers from Proxmox, see
+[discussion](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions/2343)) or
+images that optimize for size it might be missing.
+
+On Ubuntu you can check the locale is installed:
```
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 nominatim nominatim 297984 build/module/nominatim.so
+ grep UTF-8 /etc/default/locale
```
-Try `chmod a+r nominatim.so; chmod a+x nominatim.so`.
-
-When running SELinux, make sure that the
-[context is set up correctly](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-8.md#adding-selinux-security-settings).
-
-When you recently updated your operating system, updated PostgreSQL to
-a new version or moved files (e.g. the build directory) you should
-recreate `nominatim.so`. Try
+And install it using
```
- cd build
- rm -r module/
- cmake $main_Nominatim_path && make
+ dpkg-reconfigure locales
```
-### Setup.php fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
-
-Make sure you have the PostgreSQL extensions "hstore" and "postgis" installed.
-See the installation instructions for a full list of required packages.
-
-
### I forgot to delete the flatnodes file before starting an import.
That's fine. For each import the flatnodes file get overwritten.
### Can I import negative OSM ids into Nominatim?
-See [this question of Stackoverflow](https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/64662/nominatim-flatnode-with-negative-id).
+No, negative IDs are no longer supported by osm2pgsql. You can use
+large 64-bit IDs that are guaranteed not to clash with OSM IDs. However,
+you will not able to use a flatnode file with them.