Python API not found after fresh installation

[LukasPoque]

So I started with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on a bare metal server and then followed the steps from here: https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22/

Since I followed these instructions without importing any data I thought it was normal that http://localhost/nominatim/ returns a 404 Error. After setting this up I didn't see any strange errors in the services, so I started importing a dataset like described here: https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Import/. I didn't realize that the project folder there was different from the one used in the https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22/ tutorial, so I went with nominatim-planet. The import worked again without any errors and I can execute a query like nominatim search --query Berlin without an error and with a normal answer.

Now to my problem: After importing http://localhost/nominatim/ is still showing a 404 error, so I realized that in the installation tutorial there was a different path used in the /etc/systemd/system/nominatim.service (WorkingDirectory=$USERHOME/nominatim-project) then in the import tutorial I followed. I tried to change the path and restarted the nominatim.service but the error is still there.

Any hints where I can get a little bit more information on where the error is? Checking the nginx config I saw there should be a folder $USERHOME/nominatim-project/website but there is no folder called website in my project folder.

Happy for any hints, this is my first time using Nominatim :)

[mtmail]

Nominatim is migrating from PHP to Python, for some versions both frontends can be installed and we keep finding small documentation issues. The nominatim-project vs nominatim-planet was resolved in #3403

Don't move/rename the project directory after the import. I've done that once and found some configuration inside the database (osm2pgsql_properties table) contain the full path of the project directory.

The root path in the nginx configuration shouldn't have any impact I think. We'll remove the '/website' part though because that was only needed for the PHP frontend (it used to contain *.php files). #3472

Nginx forwards all requests to the process that listens on the proxy_pass address. I'd expect the HTTP 404 to come from that service. Does the gunicorn logfile contain any errors?

Which path are you using in you nginx configuration? location / (as mentioned on https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Deployment-Python/ or location /nominatim/ (as mentioned on https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-22/) ? It might be as simple as http://localhost/nominatim/status vs http://localhost/status

[lonvia]

It might even be as simple as http://localhost/nominatim/ vs. http://localhost/nominatim/status. There is no default page for the Python webserver.

[LukasPoque]

Yes 🎉 I should have tested a lot more with different URLs, http://localhost/nominatim/status is working, and /nominatim/search? too

Thanks to both of you for your time