[OSM-dev] Any problem with Debian tile servers?

[Andy Townsend]

On 08/04/2019 19:54, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 4/8/19 8:11 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
>> I want to run my own tile server but I run Debian 9 on the server I plan to
>> use. All the docs I have seen so far target Ubuntu. Is there any problem
>> with using other Linux distros?
> You can't use PPAs on Debian like those documented in switch2osm, but
> you can build mod_tile from source.


Just for clarity - 
https://switch2osm.org/manually-building-a-tile-server-18-04-lts/ 
doesn't actually use any PPAs (it deliberately tries to stick to where 
possible to what ships by default in the (Ubuntu) OS.

It'd be great for someone to do a Debian version of those instructions 
(essentially, a button-by-button guide that people can follow to get a 
system working and hopefully also understand a bit about how it all 
hangs together).

However, as Yuri says, using Docker would also work if you were happy 
with that approach.  I wrote a diary entry a while back 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SomeoneElse/diary/45070 that was 
intended to be a "new to Docker" guide for Alexander Overvoorde’s 
“openstreetmap-tile-server” repository (essentially "switch2osm in a can").

Best Regards,

Andy