setup Nominatim for postgis 8.4 on karmic

installing of the name lookup system
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Following these instructions : http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/export/osm2pgsql/gazetteer/README.txt


Use a different port!:
 /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf
       port = 5532    
 
 
Problem : 
Error: No existing local cluster is suitable as a default target. Please see man pg_wrapper(1) how to specify one.
Fix: select the port :
    export PGCLUSTER=8.4/localhost:5532
 

set the default webpage :
vi /var/www/osm2pgsql/gazetteer/website/.htlib/init.php


  apt-get install php-pear php-db php-mdb2-driver-pgsql


Test :
http://xhema.flossk.org:8089/osm2pgsql/gazetteer/website/index.php

Get the error :
Please disable magic quotes in your php.ini configuration

vi  /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
 ; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Patch the source to remove the / before the search .
vi .htlib/output/search-html.php

Based on previous instructions, 
http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/03/postgis-84-on-karmic-ubuntu-debian-gnu.html

createdb -T postgistemplate -O www-data gazetteer

get the data :
  wget http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/kosovo.osm.bz2
  bunzip2 kosovo.osm.bz2

Import it , using the svn version :
./osm2pgsql  -lsc -O gazetteer -C 2000 -d gazetteer -P 5532 -U postgres kosovo.osm

  vi import_worldboundaries.sql
change twain to 'www-data'

  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f import_worldboundaries.sql

  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f import_worldboundaries.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f import_country_name.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-tables.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-functions.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-tables.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-functions.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-loaddata.sql o
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f gazetteer-index.sql
  psql gazetteer -U postgres  -f import_specialwords.sql



it works :
http://xhema.flossk.org:8089/osm2pgsql/gazetteer/website/search?q=agim&viewbox=-5.21%2C52.21%2C47.54%2C32.61
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