Help setting up Nominatim

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Hi everyone,
I’m having some trouble setting up Nominatim. I based my instructions off of:
http://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-12-04/
and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation

The first URL didn’t talk about installing Nominatim. The Nominatim doc talks about loading planet data, which I’ve already done.

I named my database gis (instead of nominatim) as that’s what the first page had used as an example. I tried setting local.php and settings.php DSN to “@define(‘CONST_Database_DSN’, ‘pgsql://@/gis’);” but that hasn’t seemed to help. I can render the nominatim page but at the top I get “Data: DB Error: no such table” and if I search I get “Illegal query string (not an UTF-8 string)”

I’m suspecting that it can’t really reach the DB. I’m not quite sure how to fix it. I didn’t do any of the DB load process in the Nominatim doc as I had done it before in manually-building-a-tile-server. ex:

I didn’t run ./utils/setup.php --osm-file --all

but the planet DB is definitely loaded as I can see the world map on my server (example from the first url).

Does anyone have any advice on what I can look at next?

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Maybe some hints are at http://help.openstreetmap.org when searching for nominatim or database or server.

Do you want to render tiles via Mapnik AND enable the Nominatim search engine from one single database? Then do a general internet search about “nominatim mapnik same database”

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The tile rendering database and the geocoding database are completely different. There is currently no way to use the same database for both.