I accomplished this alternatively by either connecting my main computer to the Internet through my smart phone’s Wi-Fi hotspot or by using the Tor browser to reroute my requests through several other servers before it returned to my home server.Ī successful installation shows the setup wizard: Visiting the site from outside of my home network, as most of my site’s visitors would, was the way to ensure correct configuration. Viewing the site from within the home network, using either or would have given the initial appearance of working, but ultimately would have configured the site incorrectly. The trick to configuring the webtrees site is that it must be done from outside of the home network. Once I had unzipped and renamed the webtrees folder, I was ready to configure the site. I was content to leave as an HTML home page that links to my family tree, which resides at. Not having tested this option, I’m not exactly sure how well it would have worked. This might have had the effect of leading directly to my tree. Another option might have been to empty the contents of the webtrees folder directly into htdocs and erasing the index.html file there. By changing the name of the folder to grahamtree, I was able to customize the URL to. As is, the URL for my family tree would have been. I took the opportunity at this time to perform some URL customization. This unzipped the software files onto the server in a folder called webtrees. I found it much easier to do this directly from the /var/So for the current version as of this writing: root# cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs The package you receive is then simply unzipped to install the software. The software is downloadable from using the server’s wget command. The Webtrees software is not included in Gentoo’s portage tree, but installation is simple nonetheless. Here’s what I went through to get it running. Debugging the SELinux permission errors took some time, and got much easier once I learned how properly troubleshoot. Now that I have a server machine running Linux and a LAMP stack accessible via the internet, I’m ready to install the Webtrees software. Tweaking the default PHP configuration.Installing ‘intl’ and preparing the data folder.Populating the co-ordinates in the gazetteer is perhaps a separate task from finding place names.⬅️ Previous post: Getting online with LAMP and No-IP The location on the Geographic data page in the backend shows the same: It would indicate that the individual was born at the town centre, and prevent you from distinguishing events where you know the exact location from events where you do not know it. This is because these are the co-ordinates of the place - not co-ordinates of the event. Selecting one of the offered options, the hierachically structured name is used but without long/lat coordinates which are required for the representation on the geographical map: It's often quicker than going to wikipedia. For example, if I just have the name of a village, then geonames will list all the villages in the world with that name. I tend to use it to identify places I don't know. "Why is my locations database full of entries for United Kingdom, when I only ever use England, Scotland, Wales, etc.?" So, automatically importing data from geonames seems a bad idea - and likely to annoy/frustrate many users.Į.g. However, most genealogists would use "Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England". The hierarchy of data provided by geonames is very different to that used by genealogists.įor example, my own home town of Milon Keynes is shown as "Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom". This is accomplished using the Geonames API. The format should be structured/standardized.
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