Note: these installation instructions are also available in executable
form for use with vagrant under vagrant/Install-on-Centos-8.sh
.
Installing the Required Software
These instructions expect that you have a freshly installed CentOS version 8. Make sure all packages are up-to-date by running:
sudo dnf update -y
The standard CentOS repositories don't contain all the required packages, you need to enable the EPEL repository as well. For example for SELinux related redhat-hardened-cc1 package. To enable it on CentOS run:
sudo dnf install -y epel-release redhat-rpm-config
EPEL contains Postgres 9.6 and 10, but not PostGIS. Postgres 9.4+/10/11/12 and PostGIS 2.4/2.5/3.0 are availble from postgresql.org
sudo dnf -qy module disable postgresql
sudo dnf install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-8-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
export PATH=/usr/pgsql-12/bin/:$PATH
Now you can install all packages needed for Nominatim:
sudo dnf --enablerepo=powertools install -y postgresql12-server \
postgresql12-contrib postgresql12-devel postgis30_12 \
wget git cmake make gcc gcc-c++ libtool policycoreutils-python-utils \
llvm-toolset ccache clang-tools-extra \
php-pgsql php php-intl php-json libpq-devel \
bzip2-devel proj-devel boost-devel \
python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-devel \
expat-devel zlib-devel libicu-devel
pip3 install --user psycopg2-binary python-dotenv psutil Jinja2 PyICU
System Configuration
The following steps are meant to configure a fresh CentOS installation for use with Nominatim. You may skip some of the steps if you have your OS already configured.
Creating Dedicated User Accounts
Nominatim will run as a global service on your machine. It is therefore best to install it under its own separate user account. In the following we assume this user is called nominatim and the installation will be in /srv/nominatim. To create the user and directory run:
sudo useradd -d /srv/nominatim -s /bin/bash -m nominatim
You may find a more suitable location if you wish.
To be able to copy and paste instructions from this manual, export user name and home directory now like this:
export USERNAME=nominatim
export USERHOME=/srv/nominatim
Never, ever run the installation as a root user. You have been warned.
Make sure that system servers can read from the home directory:
chmod a+x $USERHOME
Setting up PostgreSQL
CentOS does not automatically create a database cluster. Therefore, start with initializing the database, then enable the server to start at boot:
sudo /usr/pgsql-12/bin/postgresql-12-setup initdb
sudo systemctl enable postgresql-12
Next tune the postgresql configuration, which is located in
/var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
. See section Postgres Tuning in
the installation page
for the parameters to change.
Now start the postgresql service after updating this config file.
sudo systemctl restart postgresql-12
Finally, we need to add two postgres users: one for the user that does the import and another for the webserver which should access the database only for reading:
sudo -u postgres createuser -s $USERNAME
sudo -u postgres createuser apache
Installing Nominatim
Building and Configuration
Get the source code for the release and unpack it
cd $USERHOME
wget https://nominatim.org/release/Nominatim-3.7.2.tar.bz2
tar xf Nominatim-3.7.2.tar.bz2
The code must be built in a separate directory. Create this directory, then configure and build Nominatim in there:
mkdir $USERHOME/build
cd $USERHOME/build
cmake $USERHOME/Nominatim-3.7.2
cmake /home/vagrant/Nominatim
make
sudo make install
Setting up the Apache Webserver
The webserver should serve the php scripts from the website directory of your project directory. Therefore set up a project directory and populate the website directory:
mkdir $USERHOME/nominatim-project
cd $USERHOME/nominatim-project
nominatim refresh --website
You need to create an alias to the website directory in your apache configuration. Add a separate nominatim configuration to your webserver:
sudo tee /etc/httpd/conf.d/nominatim.conf << EOFAPACHECONF
<Directory "$USERHOME/nominatim-project/website">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AddType text/html .php
DirectoryIndex search.php
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /nominatim $USERHOME/nominatim-project/website
EOFAPACHECONF
Then reload apache
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl restart httpd
Adding SELinux Security Settings
It is a good idea to leave SELinux enabled and enforcing, particularly with a web server accessible from the Internet. At a minimum the following SELinux labeling should be done for Nominatim:
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-php(/.*)?"
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "$USERHOME/nominatim-project/website(/.*)?"
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t lib_t "$USERHOME/nominatim-project/module/nominatim.so"
sudo restorecon -R -v /usr/local/lib64/nominatim
sudo restorecon -R -v $USERHOME/nominatim-project
You need to create a minimal configuration file that tells nominatim the name of your webserver user:
echo NOMINATIM_DATABASE_WEBUSER="apache" | tee .env
Nominatim is now ready to use. Continue with importing a database from OSM data.