Re: [overpass] debugging a new overpass installation

[Roland Olbricht <>]

Hi Richard,

> i'm working on getting an installation of overpass working
> against OpenHistoricalMap, and i'm looking for pointers on
> how to debug some issues i'm having.

Thank you for the feedback.

The query is answered by the script
cgi-bin/xapi

The error is deteced by that

REQUEST_FILE=`mktemp /tmp/translate_xapi/XXXXXX`
$BIN_DIR/translate_xapi "${BUF}" >$REQUEST_FILE

returns a nonzero value, i.e.

echo $?

immediately after these commands return a nonzero value.

Please try

- whether the script works locally, i.e.

export QUERY_STRING="way..."
./xapi

also produces the error.

- whether the individual commands

mktemp /tmp/translate_xapi/XXXXXX

(the XXX do not need to be replaced)

and

../bin/translate_xapi "way..."

work properly and $REQUEST_FILE is acessible for writing.

Best regards,

Roland