# Install Nominatim in a virtual machine for development and testing
-This document describes how you can install Nominatim inside a Ubuntu 22
+This document describes how you can install Nominatim inside a Ubuntu 24
virtual machine on your desktop/laptop (host machine). The goal is to give
you a development environment to easily edit code and run the test suite
without affecting the rest of your system.
2. [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)
-3. Nominatim
-
- git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
-
- If you forgot `--recursive`, it you can later load the submodules using
-
- git submodule init
- git submodule update
-
+3. Nominatim
+ git clone https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
## Installation
1. Start the virtual machine
- vagrant up ubuntu
+ vagrant up ubuntu24-nginx
2. Log into the virtual machine
- vagrant ssh ubuntu
+ vagrant ssh ubuntu24-nginx
3. Import a small country (Monaco)
-
+
See the FAQ how to skip this step and point Nominatim to an existing database.
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You edit code on your host machine in any editor you like. There is no need to
restart any software: just refresh your browser window.
-Note that the webserver uses files from the /build directory. If you change
-files in Nominatim/website or Nominatim/utils for example you first need to
-copy them into the /build directory by running the `cmake` step from the
-installation.
-
-PHP errors are written to `/var/log/apache2/error.log`.
-
-With `echo` and `var_dump()` you write into the output (HTML/XML/JSON) when
-you either add `&debug=1` to the URL.
+Use the functions of the `log()` object to create temporary debug output.
+Add `&debug=1` to the URL to see the output.
In the Python BDD test you can use `logger.info()` for temporary debug
statements.
-
-
-## Running unit tests
-
- cd ~/Nominatim/tests/php
- phpunit ./
-
-
-## Running PHP code style tests
-
- cd ~/Nominatim
- phpcs --colors .
-
-
-## Running functional tests
-
-Tests in `test/bdd/db` and `test/bdd/osm2pgsql` have to pass 100%. Other
-tests might require full planet-wide data. Sadly even if you have your own
-planet-wide data there will be enough differences to the openstreetmap.org
-installation to cause false positives in the other tests (see FAQ).
-
-To run the full test suite
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- cd ~/Nominatim/test/bdd
- behave -DBUILDDIR=/home/vagrant/build/ db osm2pgsql
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-To run a single file
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- behave -DBUILDDIR=/home/vagrant/build/ api/lookup/simple.feature
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-Or a single test by line number
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- behave -DBUILDDIR=/home/vagrant/build/ api/lookup/simple.feature:34
-
-To run specific groups of tests you can add tags just before the `Scenario line`, e.g.
-
- @bug-34
- Scenario: address lookup for non-existing or invalid node, way, relation
-
-and then
-
- behave -DBUILDDIR=/home/vagrant/build/ --tags @bug-34
-
-
-
-
+For more information on running tests, see
+https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/develop/Testing/
## FAQ
##### Will it run on Windows?
-Yes, Vagrant and Virtualbox can be installed on MS Windows just fine. You need a 64bit
-version of Windows.
+Yes, Vagrant and Virtualbox can be installed on MS Windows just fine. You need
+a 64bit version of Windows.
##### Will it run on Apple Silicon?
##### Why Monaco, can I use another country?
-Of course! The Monaco import takes less than 30 minutes and works with 2GB RAM.
+Of course! The Monaco import takes less than 10 minutes and works with 2GB RAM.
##### Will the results be the same as those from nominatim.openstreetmap.org?
-No. Long running Nominatim installations will differ once new import features (or
+No. Long-running Nominatim installations will differ once new import features (or
bug fixes) get added since those usually only get applied to new/changed data.
Also this document skips the optional Wikipedia data import which affects ranking
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).
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