[OSM-talk] Installing your own tileserver on Ubuntu

[SomeoneElse]

Kai Krueger wrote:
> A simple standard tileserver can now be setup in 5 commands in a terminal:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kakrueger/openstreetmap
> sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-tile
> wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/colorado.osm.pbf
> osm2pgsql -C 1500 colorado.osm.pbf
> sudo /etc/init.d/renderd restart
>

Hmm - something's not quite right.  The "Mapnik" base layer displays OK 
(i.e. grabs tiles from OSM) but "Local Tiles" displays a blank white screen.

This is with:
o Ubuntu server 11.04
o Postgres already installed with data from a GB extract from Geofabrik 
(and I have separately run generate_tiles.py to produce tiles; so the 
data appears to be there OK)
o Running the "apt-get install" from root
o Answering "no" to the "download OSM data" question in the postinstall 
script for libapache2-mod-tile but answering "yes" to the others, so 
/etc/mapnik-osm-data/ has something in it.

The result is that /var/lib/mod_tile/**is empty, and /var/www/osm has 
only slippymap.html in it.

Running "apt-get remove libapache2-mod-tile;apt-get install 
libapache2-mod-tile" doesn't rerun the configuration; is it supposed 
to?  Also:

root at ajt-medion:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Syntax error on line 20 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/tileserver_site:
Invalid command 'LoadTileConfigFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a 
module not included in the server configuration
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
    ...fail!

Cheers,
Andy