Merge pull request #2526 from lonvia/docs-moving-database

[nominatim.git] / docs / admin / Setup-Nominatim-UI.md

diff --git a/docs/admin/Setup-Nominatim-UI.md b/docs/admin/Setup-Nominatim-UI.md
index 9a6e163b9ef94355d154bfe30d5541b11374519c..672dbefdf33d10d3909dbb8e212b1a8ba77b8ded 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/admin/Setup-Nominatim-UI.md
+++ b/docs/admin/Setup-Nominatim-UI.md
@@ -10,15 +10,20 @@ installation. For more details, please also have a look at the
 
 ## Installing nominatim-ui
 
-nominatim-ui does not need any special installation, just download, configure
-and run it.
+We provide regular releases of nominatim-ui that contain the packaged website.
+They do not need any special installation. Just download, configure
+and run it. Grab the latest release from
+[nominatim-ui's Github release page](https://github.com/osm-search/nominatim-ui/releases)
+and unpack it. You can use `nominatim-ui-x.x.x.tar.gz` or `nominatim-ui-x.x.x.zip`.
 
-Clone the source from github:
+Next you need to adapt the UI yo your installation. Custom settings need to be
+put into `dist/theme/config.theme.js`. At a minimum you need to
+set `Nominatim_API_Endpoint` to point to your Nominatim installation:
 
-    git clone https://github.com/osm-search/nominatim-ui
+    cd nominatim-ui
+    echo "Nominatim_Config.Nominatim_API_Endpoint='https:\\myserver.org\nominatim';" > dist/theme/config.theme.js
 
-Adapt the configuration `dist/config.js` to your needs. You need at least
-to change the `Nominatim_API_Endpoint` to point to your Nominatim installation.
+For the full set of available settings, have a look at `dist/config.defaults.js`.
 
 Then you can just test it locally by spinning up a webserver in the `dist`
 directory. For example, with Python:
@@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ map $args $format {
     ~(^|&)format=            other;
 }
 
-# Determine from the URI and the format parameter aboce if forwarding is needed.
+# Determine from the URI and the format parameter above if forwarding is needed.
 map $uri/$format $forward_to_ui {
     default               1;   # The default is to forward.
     ~^/ui                 0;   # If the URI point to the UI already, we are done.