Installing Tilestache on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Recently I was struggling a bit to install Tilestache on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. Below are the steps that finally made it work. The server IP was 192.168.1.122

(install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
(sudo apt-get openssh-server) (for ssh access)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install tilestache

edit /etc/tilestache.cfg (sudo nano or something similar)

{
  "cache":
  {
    "name": "Disk",
    "path": "/tmp/stache",
    "umask": "0000"
  },
  "layers":
  {
    "osm":
    {
        "provider": {"name": "proxy", "provider": "OPENSTREETMAP"}
    }
  }
}

NB: For a persistent cache, you may consider using a different location instead of /tmp, for instance /var/tilestache

Test by running tilestache standalone:

tilestache-server.py -c /etc/tilestache.cfg -i 0.0.0.0

browse:
http://192.168.1.122:8080/osm/preview.html

Install as WSGI program:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo mkdir /var/www/wsgi

edit /var/www/wsgi/tilestache.wsgi:

import os, TileStache
application = TileStache.WSGITileServer('/etc/tilestache.cfg')

edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf (add 1 line)

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
WSGIScriptAlias /tilestache /var/www/wsgi/tilestache.wsgi

Keep python happy and restart web server:

cd /var/www
sudo mkdir .python-eggs
sudo chmod 777 .python-eggs
sudo service apache2 restart

browse:
http://192.168.1.122/tilestache/osm/0/0/0.png
http://192.168.1.122/tilestache/osm/preview.html

using tiles by leaflet: change

var osmUrl='http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png';

to:

var osmUrl='http://192.168.1.122/tilestache/osm/{z}/{x}/{y}.png';

shell script for seeding: (seed.sh)

#!/bin/sh

# World
north=80
west=-180
south=-80
east=180
tilestache-seed.py -b $north $west $south $east \
-c /etc/tilestache.cfg -l osm 0 1 2 3 4

# Netherlands
north=53.777
west=2.99
south=50.631
east=53.194
tilestache-seed.py -b $north $west $south $east \
-c /etc/tilestache.cfg -l osm 5 6 7 8

# Den Haag
north=52.137
west=4.240
south=51.999
east=4.443
tilestache-seed.py -b $north $west $south $east \
-c /etc/tilestache.cfg -l osm 9 10 11 12 13

for zoom levels: see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Zoom_levels