Reload renderd after updating style

Question

I have set up an instance of OSM on my computer, using this tutorial.

I also installed kosmtik and when I make changes in the styles, kosmtik does take them into account.

Now, I'd like to see my changes reflected in the tiles generated by rendered. So far I'm doing this, with no success:

1°) Stop Apache & renderd:

2°) Delete the cache & re-generate my mapnik.xml file:

3°) Start Apache & renderd

What I am missing?

Tim Autin · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-03 12:24:01Z

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So, answer to myself: I was already doing was is needed, not sure why it was not working (I since installed some stuff and restarted the VM)...

The following steps are enough:

#!/bin/bash
cd ./openstreetmap-carto
carto project.mml > mapnik.xml
rm -Rf ~/tile-cache/mod_tile/osm
sudo /etc/init.d/renderd restart

answered Jun 26, 2018 at 11:54

Tim Autin

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I suspect you'll also want to add a restart of renderd to that to make sure it's using the mapnik.xml (or maybe that's triggered by a "service restart" of apache2?).
– SomeoneElse
Jul 2, 2018 at 13:56
As an example, when I don't need to do a database reload but just want to a apply a style change I run this, and when I do need to do a database reload I run this. For completeness that latter script does some special processing to use Welsh names in parts of Wales, which you likely won't need.
– SomeoneElse
Jul 2, 2018 at 13:57
Oops indeed, wrong copy paste I think: I need to restart renderd, not Apache. I updated my answer, thanks.
– Tim Autin
Jul 3, 2018 at 12:23

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