Installation FAQ entry about a PHP warning that started with PHP7.2 [SKIP CI]

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-# Running Your Own Instance
+# Troubleshooting Nominatim Installations
 
-### Can I import multiple countries and keep them up to date?
-
-You should use the extracts and updates from https://download.geofabrik.de.
-For the initial import, download the countries you need and merge them.
-See [OSM Help](https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/48843/merging-two-or-more-geographical-areas-to-import-two-or-more-osm-files-in-nominatim)
-for examples how to do that. Use the resulting single osm file when
-running `setup.php`.
-
-For updates you need to download the change files for each country
-once per day and apply them **separately** using
-
-    ./utils/update.php --import-diff <filename> --index
-    
-See [this issue](https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/60#issuecomment-18679446)
-for a script that runs the updates using osmosis.
-
-### Can I import negative OSM ids into Nominatim?
-
-See [https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/64662/nominatim-flatnode-with-negative-id]()
-
-### Missing XML or text declaration
-
-The website might show: `XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location.`
-
-Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning of your `settings/local.php` file.
-
-
-# Installation
+## Installation Issues
 
 ### Can a stopped/killed import process be resumed?
 
@@ -120,6 +93,14 @@ However, you can solve this the quick and dirty way by commenting out that line
     sudo systemctl restart httpd
 
 
+### "must be an array or an object that implements Countable" warning in /usr/share/pear/DB.php
+
+As reported starting PHP 7.2. This external DB library is no longer maintained and will be replaced in future Nominatim versions. In the meantime you'd have to manually change the line near 774 from
+`if (!count($dsn)) {` to  `if (!$dsn && !count($dsn))`. [More details](https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/1184)
+
+
+
+
 ### Website reports "DB Error: insufficient permissions"
 
 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`.
@@ -145,9 +126,9 @@ Example error message
    CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function make_standard_name(text) line 5 at assignment]
 ```
 
-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`.
+The Postgresql database, i.e. user postgres, needs to have access to that file.
 
-The permission need to be read&executable by everybody, e.g.
+The permission need to be read & executable by everybody, e.g.
 
 ```
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 nominatim nominatim 297984 build/module/nominatim.so
@@ -155,6 +136,9 @@ The permission need to be read&executable by everybody, e.g.
 
 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-7/#adding-selinux-security-settings).
+
 ### Setup.php fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
 
 Make sure you have the Postgres extensions hstore and postgis installed.
@@ -177,3 +161,33 @@ That's fine. For each import the flatnodes file get overwritten.
 See [https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/52419/nominatim-flatnode-storage]()
 for more information.
 
+
+## Running your own instance
+
+### Can I import multiple countries and keep them up to date?
+
+You should use the extracts and updates from https://download.geofabrik.de.
+For the initial import, download the countries you need and merge them.
+See [OSM Help](https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/48843/merging-two-or-more-geographical-areas-to-import-two-or-more-osm-files-in-nominatim)
+for examples how to do that. Use the resulting single osm file when
+running `setup.php`.
+
+For updates you need to download the change files for each country
+once per day and apply them **separately** using
+
+    ./utils/update.php --import-diff <filename> --index
+    
+See [this issue](https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/issues/60#issuecomment-18679446)
+for a script that runs the updates using osmosis.
+
+### Can I import negative OSM ids into Nominatim?
+
+See [this question of Stackoverflow](https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/64662/nominatim-flatnode-with-negative-id).
+
+### Missing XML or text declaration
+
+The website might show: `XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location.`
+
+Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning of your `settings/local.php` file.
+
+