Install Devolia Geo

From Devolia.org wiki - EN

Contents 1 Prerequisites 1.1 Core prerequisites 2 Getting and unpacking latest release 3 Installing data 4 Optional tasks

Prerequisites

Core prerequisites

• A server with enough disk space to store data from GeoNames (up to 4 GB, depending on the indexes setup)
• A webserver (we suggest Apache)
• PHP 5.2.0 (at least) in order to enable json response format.
• MySQL 4.x (at least)

Getting and unpacking latest release

• Download the latest release on Devolia.org

Installing data

• Make the install script executable (it should already be if you got it through subversion)

chmod a+x ./import.sh

• Run the script

./import.sh

• Create a geonames user with full SELECT rights on the geonames database
• Edit geoservice-config.incl.php and replace YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE with your actual password
• Configure your web server with a virtual server which root directory is the www subdirectory of the release

Optional tasks

We recommend to set up indexes in the geoname table on the following fields:

• latitude
• longitude
• fclass
• population

Once the installation is complete, have a look on how to use Devolia Geo.