X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/6d39563b872b21825a61949e88bc47a0e88c7573..89094cf92e82ebb1004498fad8822975f1af4347:/nominatim/api/core.py

diff --git a/nominatim/api/core.py b/nominatim/api/core.py
index f975f44a..1c0c4423 100644
--- a/nominatim/api/core.py
+++ b/nominatim/api/core.py
@@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ class NominatimAPIAsync: #pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
                 dburl = sa.engine.URL.create('sqlite+aiosqlite',
                                              database=params.get('dbname'))
 
+                if not ('NOMINATIM_DATABASE_RW' in self.config.environ
+                        and self.config.get_bool('DATABASE_RW')) \
+                   and not Path(params.get('dbname', '')).is_file():
+                    raise UsageError(f"SQlite database '{params.get('dbname')}' does not exist.")
             else:
                 dsn = self.config.get_database_params()
                 query = {k: v for k, v in dsn.items()