MappingNotes: Tilestream

Installing Tilestream on Ubuntu 14.04 (2015 update)

Install a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 64bit, include only openssh in the setup wizard,
reboot,
log in to guest and check the ip address then login from mac host via ssh (so we can copy paste following commands)
do this as a normal user not root!

Follow github instructions from mapbox:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nodejs

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo apt-get update

git clone https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream.git

cd tilestream/ && npm install

And the result is (drum roll)...

./index.js will complain about the stringify module - fail

so to fix this....

2. Update the dependencies section of the package.json file and allow the latest connect version

"dependencies": {

"jsdom":"https://github.com/springmeyer/jsdom-nogyp/tarball/c501ee8b71d8",

"xmlhttprequest": "1.5.0",

"backbone":"0.3.3",

"jquery":"1.6.3",

"express":"2.5.11",

"connect":"*",

"bones": "1.3.29",

"step": "0.0.5",

"tilelive": "4.5.3",

"mbtiles": "0.2.9",

"sphericalmercator": "1.0.2",

"underscore": "1.6.0",

"wax": "6.4.2",

"modestmaps": "3.3.5"

3. You have to remove the current node_modules directory, reinstall using the new package config and re launch ./index.js:

charlton@tileserver:~/tilestream$ rm -fR node_modules/ && npm install && ./index.js --host 10.0.0.34
npm WARN package.json tilestream@1.1.0 'repositories' (plural) Not supported. Please pick one as the 'repository' field
npm WARN engine hoek@2.16.3: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.40"} (current: {"node":"0.10.37","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN engine boom@2.10.1: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.40"} (current: {"node":"0.10.37","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN engine cryptiles@2.0.5: wanted: {"node":">=0.10.40"} (current: {"node":"0.10.37","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN deprecated set-immediate@0.1.1: Use `setimmediate` instead
> sqlite3@2.2.7 install /home/charlton/tilestream/node_modules/mbtiles/node_modules/sqlite3
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
[sqlite3] Success: "/home/charlton/tilestream/node_modules/mbtiles/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v11-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node" is installed via remote
sphericalmercator@1.0.2 node_modules/sphericalmercator
step@0.0.5 node_modules/step
xmlhttprequest@1.5.0 node_modules/xmlhttprequest
underscore@1.6.0 node_modules/underscore
jquery@1.6.3 node_modules/jquery
└── htmlparser@1.7.7
express@2.5.11 node_modules/express
├── qs@0.4.2
├── mime@1.2.4
├── mkdirp@0.3.0
└── connect@1.9.2 (formidable@1.0.17)
connect@3.4.0 node_modules/connect
├── utils-merge@1.0.0
├── parseurl@1.3.0
├── debug@2.2.0 (ms@0.7.1)
└── finalhandler@0.4.0 (escape-html@1.0.2, unpipe@1.0.0, on-finished@2.3.0)
backbone@0.3.3 node_modules/backbone
tilelive@4.5.3 node_modules/tilelive
└── optimist@0.6.1 (wordwrap@0.0.3, minimist@0.0.10)
bones@1.3.29 node_modules/bones
├── underscore@1.1.7
├── optimist@0.6.1 (wordwrap@0.0.3, minimist@0.0.10)
└── mirror@0.3.3 (uglify-js@1.0.2)
modestmaps@3.3.5 node_modules/modestmaps
wax@6.4.2 node_modules/wax
jsdom@0.8.3 node_modules/jsdom
├── cssom@0.2.5
├── nwmatcher@1.3.6
├── htmlparser2@3.8.3 (domelementtype@1.3.0, entities@1.0.0, domhandler@2.3.0, readable-stream@1.1.13, domutils@1.5.1)
├── cssstyle@0.2.30 (cssom@0.3.0)
└── request@2.65.0 (aws-sign2@0.6.0, forever-agent@0.6.1, caseless@0.11.0, stringstream@0.0.5, tunnel-agent@0.4.1, oauth-sign@0.8.0, isstream@0.1.2, json-stringify-safe@5.0.1, extend@3.0.0, node-uuid@1.4.7, qs@5.2.0, combined-stream@1.0.5, tough-cookie@2.2.1, mime-types@2.1.7, form-data@1.0.0-rc3, http-signature@0.11.0, bl@1.0.0, hawk@3.1.1, har-validator@2.0.2)
mbtiles@0.2.9 node_modules/mbtiles
├── underscore@1.5.2
└── sqlite3@2.2.7 (set-immediate@0.1.1, nan@1.1.2)
Creating tiles dir /home/charlton/Documents/MapBox/tiles
Started [Server Tile].
Started [Server Core:8888].

Bam!!!

If you have a firewall secretly hiding - don't forget to allow connections from other machines:

charlton@ubuntu:~/tilestream$ sudo ufw allow 8888

[sudo] password for charlton:

Rules updated

Rules updated (v6)

History

I couldn't find anything about the stringify error anywhere because it is indirectly related but by trial and error I asked for the latest version of each module in the package.json file and found the outdated connect module was the culprit.

Here's the history for proof!

charlton@tileserver:~$ uname -a

Linux tileserver 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

charlton@tileserver:~/tilestream$ history

1 ifconfig

2 sudo reboot

3 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

4 sudo apt-get update

5 sudo apt-get install nodejs nodejs-dev npm

6 node -v

7 sudo apt-get install nodejs

8 sudo apt-get install git-core

9 sudo apt-get update

10 git clone https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream.git

11 cd tilestream/

12 npm install

13 ./index.js

14 vim package.json

15 ifconfig

16 rm -fR node_modules/ && npm install && ./index.js --host 10.0.0.34

17 history

This can be shortened to :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install nodejs git-core

git clone https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream.git && cd tilestream

vim package.json # edit the connect line

npm install && ./index.js --host 10.0.0.34

Hope this saves some hell!!

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