X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/1ee636461c3fe1925731691985161a19cea64247..e7b738fe35a2ec13efdc22c9f068c477182da6c3:/docs/admin/Faq.md

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@@ -1,33 +1,6 @@
-# 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 [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.
+# Troubleshooting Nominatim Installations
 
-
-# Installation
+## Installation Issues
 
 ### Can a stopped/killed import process be resumed?
 
@@ -145,9 +118,9 @@ 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 +128,9 @@ 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 +153,33 @@ 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.
+
+