Routino : Installation

Quick Start Guide

The instructions below are a complete list of the minimum required to get Routino installed and running under Apache on Debian Linux (other Linux versions will be similar).

These instructions should not be considered as complete or a secure installation for the reasons given in more detail in the Configuration of Web Files section below.

The starting point for the installation is in the Routino source code directory after it has been uncompressed. Most of the steps will need to be run as the root user.

The first thing to do is to install the packages which are required for compilation of Routino as described in the Pre-Requisites section below. 

apt-get install gcc make libc6-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev
After this the programs can be compiled: 
make
The files for the web interface can now be copied to the web server directory. On Debian this is /var/www and the files changed to be owned by the user Apache runs as. 
cp -a web /var/www/routino
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/routino
To be able to use Routino some data will need to be processed and a script is provided for this. This will download the data for the UK which may take a while and then process it. 
cd /var/www/routino/data
sh -x create.sh
The routino web pages also requires the OpenLayers Javascript to be downloaded and installed and a script is also provided for this. 
cd /var/www/routino/www/openlayers
sh -x install.sh
To make full use of the location search feature on the Routino web page you will need to install one extra perl package. 
apt-get install libjson-pp-perl
Finally to make the web pages work you will need to add the extra lines to the Apache configuration file as described in the Configuration of Web Server section below. You don't have to use vi and can use any text editor. 
vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
apache2ctl restart
Now everything should be set up and the web page should work if accessed at http://localhost/routino/www/routino/router.html.

When everything is working you should read the rest of this document carefully and make the following changes:

Pre-Requisites

The programs are written in standard C language with minimal external requirements so only a small set of development tools are required (gcc, make). The compilation tools to use and the command line options are defined in the file Makefile.conf.

There is some support for multi-threading that uses pthreads and additional development libraries for this may be required. The multi-threading can be disabled at compile time if required by commenting out a couple of lines in the file Makefile.conf.

To use the built-in file decompression functions the zlib (or libz) and bzip2 (or libbz2) development libraries are also required. (On Linux systems these might be in packages called libz-dev and libbz2-dev). If these are not available the function be disabled by commenting out a couple of lines in the file Makefile.conf.

To use the web page interface an http server is required. Instructions below are for Apache but any server that supports CGIs should work.

The web pages use the Perl scripting language and a number of the default Perl modules. To use the search function on the router web page the additional Perl module "JSON::PP" must be installed.

Compilation

To compile the programs just type make at the top level of the source tree.

This program has been written to run on Linux, no cross-platform compatibility has been specifically included but on the other hand other platforms have not knowingly been excluded either.

Any information on improving the compilation process on anything other than x86 Linux is welcome.

Installation

After compilation the executable files are copied into the directory web/bin and the default XML configuration files are copied into the directory web/data. This is in preparation for using the supplied example web pages but is also a useful location to copy the files from for normal use.

The required executable files are planetsplitter, router and filedumper and the *-slim versions of the same files. They can be copied to any location and need no special installation environment. The filedumperx executable is for debugging and not required.

The configuration files are called profiles.xml, tagging.xml and translations.xml. The names of the configuration files can be specified on the command line but by default are also looked for in the directory that contains the routing database with these names.

Example Web Page

The directory web contains a set of files that can be used to create a working set of web pages with interfaces to the routing algorithm.

The files in the web directory will require copying to a location that is accessible by a web server. After copying the files some of them need to be edited; search through the files for lines that contain the words "EDIT THIS" and make appropriate edits (more details below).

Configuration of Web Files

The assumption in this description is that the whole of the directory called web is copied into a directory that is accessible by an Apache web server.

This is not a secure configuration but an easy one to configure.
Only the directory www should be accessible by the web server. Do not use this configuration unmodified in a public web server.

The directory structure is as follows: 

   web/
    |
    + /bin/                    <- The Routino executable files (when compiled).
    |
    + /data/                   <- The Routino database and default configuration
    |                             files.
    |
    + /results/                <- An empty directory to store the results.
    |
    + /www/                    <- The files that must be available to the web
        |                         server are below this level.
        |
        + /openlayers/         <- A directory to hold the OpenLayers scripts.
        |
        + /routino/            <- The main HTML, Javascript, CSS and CGI files.
            |
            + /documentation/  <- The HTML version of the Routino documentation.
The directory bin will be filled by running the compilation process. For a secure installation the bin directory should be outside of the web server, the file www/routino/paths.pl contains the path to the bin directory.

The directory data must contain the Routino database and is also the default location for the configuration files. The routing database is created by downloading the OSM files for the region of interest and running the planetsplitter program. There is a script in the directory that will download the OSM files and create the required database. The script should be edited to set the names of the files to be downloaded. For a secure installation the data directory should be outside of the web server, the file www/routino/paths.pl contains the path to the data directory.

The directory results is a temporary directory that it used to hold the GPX and text files generated by the Routino router. The directory must be writable by the web server process since it is the CGI scripts that are run by the web server that writes the results here. For a secure installation the results directory should be outside of the web server, the file www/routino/paths.pl contains the path to the results directory.

The directory www and its sub-directories are the only ones that need to be within the web server accessible directory.

The directory www/openlayers must be filled with the openlayers Javascript library that can be downloaded from http://www.openlayers.org/. (This version of Routino has been tested with OpenLayers library versions 2.11 and 2.12). The files must be installed so that the file www/openlayers/OpenLayers.js and the directories www/openlayers/img/, www/openlayers/theme/ all exist. There is a script in the directory that will automatically download the files, create an optimised "OpenLayers.js" and copy the files to the required locations.

The directory www/routino contains the main HTML, Javascript and CSS files as well as the CGI scripts that perform the server-side routing functions. The description below lists all of the files that contain editable information.

paths.pl
This contains the names of the directories that contain the executable files, router database and temporary results; the prefix for the routing database; and the names of the executables.
mapprops.js
The parameters in this file control the boundary of the visible map (defaults to UK), the minimum and maximum zoom levels (defaults to between 4 and 15 inclusive), the source of map tiles (defaults to the main OpenStreetMap tile server), the data editing and browsing URLs (default to the OpenStreetMap website) and the number of waypoints allowed (defaults to 9).

The directory www/routino/documentation contains the HTML version of the Routino documentation.

Configuration of Web Server

The file www/routino/.htaccess contains all of the Apache configuration options that are required to get the example web pages running. The only problem is that because of the way that the AllowOverride option works one of the configuration options has been commented out. This must be enabled in the main Apache server configuration file.

If you have copied the routino web directory into /var/www and named it routino then the entry that you need in your Apache configuration file is this one: 

     <Directory /var/www/routino>
         AllowOverride All
         Options +ExecCGI
     </Directory>
This can be placed anywhere between the <VirtualHost *:80> and </VirtualHost> tags which should be at the start and end of the file.
© Andrew M. Bishop - http://www.routino.org/