# Deploying Nominatim
The Nominatim API is implemented as a PHP application. The `website/` directory
-in the build directory contains the configured website. You can serve this
+in the project directory contains the configured website. You can serve this
in a production environment with any web server that is capable to run
PHP scripts.
for background information on configuring the services.
!!! Note
- Throughout this page, we assume that your Nominatim build directory is
- located in `/srv/nominatim/build` and the source code in
- `/srv/nominatim/Nominatim`. If you have put it somewhere else, you
- need to adjust the commands and configuration accordingly.
+ Throughout this page, we assume that your Nominatim project directory is
+ located in `/srv/nominatim-project` and that you have installed Nominatim
+ using the default installation prefix `/usr/local`. If you have put it
+ somewhere else, you need to adjust the commands and configuration
+ accordingly.
We further assume that your web server runs as user `www-data`. Older
versions of CentOS may still use the user name `apache`. You also need
on of the php files as the web server user:
``` sh
-sudo -u www-data head -n 1 /srv/nominatim/build/website/search.php
+sudo -u www-data head -n 1 /srv/nominatim-project/website/search.php
```
If this shows a permission error, then you need to adapt the permissions of
for Nominatim:
``` sh
-sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/srv/nominatim/Nominatim/(website|lib|settings)(/.*)?"
-sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/srv/nominatim/build/(website|settings)(/.*)?"
-sudo semanage fcontext -a -t lib_t "/srv/nominatim/build/module/nominatim.so"
-sudo restorecon -R -v /srv/nominatim/Nominatim
-sudo restorecon -R -v /srv/nominatim/build
+sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/nominatim/lib/lib-php(/.*)?"
+sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/srv/nominatim-project/website(/.*)?"
+sudo semanage fcontext -a -t lib_t "/srv/nominatim-project/module/nominatim.so"
+sudo restorecon -R -v /usr/local/lib/nominatim
+sudo restorecon -R -v /srv/nominatim-project
```
## Nominatim with Apache
directory and create an alias:
``` apache
-<Directory "/srv/nominatim/build/website">
+<Directory "/srv/nominatim-project/website">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AddType text/html .php
DirectoryIndex search.php
Require all granted
</Directory>
-Alias /nominatim /srv/nominatim/build/website
+Alias /nominatim /srv/nominatim-project/website
```
After making changes in the apache config you need to restart apache.
### Installing the required packages
-Nginx has no built-in PHP interpreter. You need to use php-fpm as a deamon for
+Nginx has no built-in PHP interpreter. You need to use php-fpm as a daemon for
serving PHP cgi.
On Ubuntu/Debian install nginx and php-fpm with:
unix socket by adding the location definition to the default configuration.
``` nginx
-root /srv/nominatim/build/website;
+root /srv/nominatim-project/website;
index search.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @php;
Restart the nginx and php-fpm services and the website should now be available
at `http://localhost/`.
+## Nominatim with other webservers
+
+Users have created instructions for other webservers:
+
+* [Caddy](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions/2580)
+