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# Install Nominatim in a virtual machine for development and testing
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This document describes how you can install Nominatim inside a Ubuntu 24
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virtual machine on your desktop/laptop (host machine). The goal is to give
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you a development environment to easily edit code and run the test suite
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without affecting the rest of your system.
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The installation can run largely unsupervised. You should expect 1h from
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start to finish depending on how fast your computer and download speed
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is.
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## Prerequisites
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1. [Virtualbox](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
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2. [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)
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3. Nominatim
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git clone https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
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## Installation
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1. Start the virtual machine
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vagrant up ubuntu24-nginx
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2. Log into the virtual machine
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vagrant ssh ubuntu24-nginx
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3. Import a small country (Monaco)
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See the FAQ how to skip this step and point Nominatim to an existing database.
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```
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# inside the virtual machine:
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cd nominatim-project
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wget --no-verbose --output-document=monaco.osm.pbf http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/monaco-latest.osm.pbf
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nominatim import --osm-file monaco.osm.pbf 2>&1 | tee monaco.$$.log
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```
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To repeat an import you'd need to delete the database first
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dropdb --if-exists nominatim
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## Development
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Vagrant maps the virtual machine's port 8089 to your host machine. Thus you can
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see Nominatim in action on [localhost:8089](http://localhost:8089/nominatim/).
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You edit code on your host machine in any editor you like. There is no need to
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restart any software: just refresh your browser window.
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Use the functions of the `log()` object to create temporary debug output.
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Add `&debug=1` to the URL to see the output.
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In the Python BDD test you can use `logger.info()` for temporary debug
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statements.
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For more information on running tests, see
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https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/develop/Testing/
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## FAQ
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##### Will it run on Windows?
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Yes, Vagrant and Virtualbox can be installed on MS Windows just fine. You need
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a 64bit version of Windows.
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##### Will it run on Apple Silicon?
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You might need to replace Virtualbox with [Parallels](https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/).
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There is no free/open source version of Parallels.
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##### Why Monaco, can I use another country?
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Of course! The Monaco import takes less than 10 minutes and works with 2GB RAM.
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##### Will the results be the same as those from nominatim.openstreetmap.org?
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No. Long-running Nominatim installations will differ once new import features (or
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bug fixes) get added since those usually only get applied to new/changed data.
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Also this document skips the optional Wikipedia data import which affects ranking
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of search results. See [Nominatim installation](https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation)
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for details.
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##### Why Ubuntu? Can I test CentOS/Fedora/CoreOS/FreeBSD?
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There used to be a Vagrant script for CentOS available, but the Nominatim directory
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isn't symlinked/mounted to the host which makes development trickier. We used
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it mainly for debugging installation with SELinux.
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In general Nominatim will run in the other environments. The installation steps
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are slightly different, e.g. the name of the package manager, Apache2 package
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name, location of files. We chose Ubuntu because that is closest to the
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nominatim.openstreetmap.org production environment.
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You can configure/download other Vagrant boxes from
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[https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search](https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search).
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##### How can I connect to an existing database?
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Let's say you have a Postgres database named `nominatim_it` on server `your-server.com`
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and port `5432`. The Postgres username is `postgres`. You can edit the `.env` in your
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project directory and point Nominatim to it.
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NOMINATIM_DATABASE_DSN="pgsql:host=your-server.com;port=5432;user=postgres;dbname=nominatim_it
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No data import or restarting necessary.
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If the Postgres installation is behind a firewall, you can try
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ssh -L 9999:localhost:5432 your-username@your-server.com
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inside the virtual machine. It will map the port to `localhost:9999` and then
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you edit `.env` file with
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NOMINATIM_DATABASE_DSN="pgsql:host=localhost;port=9999;user=postgres;dbname=nominatim_it"
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To access postgres directly remember to specify the hostname,
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e.g. `psql --host localhost --port 9999 nominatim_it`
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##### My computer is slow and the import takes too long. Can I start the virtual machine "in the cloud"?
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Yes. It's possible to start the virtual machine on [Amazon AWS (plugin)](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws)
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or [DigitalOcean (plugin)](https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean).
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