Martin Tile Server Documentation

Using with NGINX

You can run Martin behind NGINX proxy, so you can cache frequently accessed tiles and reduce unnecessary pressure on the database. Here is an example docker-compose.yml file that runs Martin with NGINX and PostgreSQL.

version: '3'

services:
  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - ./cache:/var/cache/nginx
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
    depends_on:
      - martin

  martin:
    image: maplibre/martin:v0.7.0
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:password@db/db
    depends_on:
      - db

  db:
    image: postgis/postgis:14-3.3-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=db
      - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
    volumes:
      - ./pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

You can find an example NGINX configuration file here.

Rewriting URLs

If you are running Martin behind NGINX proxy, you may want to rewrite the request URL to properly handle tile URLs in TileJSON.

location ~ /tiles/(?<fwd_path>.*) {
    proxy_set_header  X-Rewrite-URL $uri;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_redirect    off;

    proxy_pass        http://martin:3000/$fwd_path$is_args$args;
}

Caching tiles

You can also use NGINX to cache tiles. In the example, the maximum cache size is set to 10GB, and caching time is set to 1 hour for responses with codes 200, 204, and 302 and 1 minute for responses with code 404.

http {
  ...
  proxy_cache_path  /var/cache/nginx/
                    levels=1:2
                    max_size=10g
                    use_temp_path=off
                    keys_zone=tiles_cache:10m;

  server {
    ...
    location ~ /tiles/(?<fwd_path>.*) {
        proxy_set_header        X-Rewrite-URL $uri;
        proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_redirect          off;

        proxy_cache             tiles_cache;
        proxy_cache_lock        on;
        proxy_cache_revalidate  on;

        # Set caching time for responses
        proxy_cache_valid       200 204 302 1h;
        proxy_cache_valid       404 1m;

        proxy_cache_use_stale   error timeout http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
        add_header              X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;

        proxy_pass              http://martin:3000/$fwd_path$is_args$args;
    }
  }
}

You can find an example NGINX configuration file here.