[ckan-dev] RE : Trouble installing ckan

Thu Aug 23 15:48:52 UTC 2012

On 23 August 2012 16:46, mehdi benchoufi <benchoufi.mehdi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again Sean,
>
> I finally managed to activate the copy-paste between my mac and
> ubuntu-guest. So, I downloaded what I could using the command
>
> Then, I followed step by step the doc, I ran paster serve development.ini,
> and here's what I get:
>
> 2012-08-23 17:41:20,486 ERROR [ckan.lib.search.common] [Errno 111]
> Connection refused
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/mbenchoufi/pyenv/src/ckan/ckan/lib/search/common.py", line 51,
> in is_available
>     conn.query("*:*", rows=1)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/solr/core.py", line 703, in
> query
>     return self.select(*args, **params)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/solr/core.py", line 798, in
> __call__
>     xml = self.raw(**params)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/solr/core.py", line 823, in
> raw
>     rsp = conn._post(self.selector, request, conn.form_headers)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/solr/core.py", line 646, in
> _post
>     self._reconnect()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/solr/core.py", line 625, in
> _reconnect
>     self.conn.connect()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 757, in connect
>     self.timeout, self.source_address)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
>     raise err
> error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
> 2012-08-23 17:41:20,547 WARNI [ckan.lib.search] Problems were found while
> connecting to the SOLR server
> Starting server in PID 2023.
> serving on 0.0.0.0:5000 view at http://127.0.0.1:5000

See that error message:

 error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
> 2012-08-23 17:41:20,547 WARNI [ckan.lib.search] Problems were found while
> connecting to the SOLR server

That means your SOLR server is not setup. Note that you can set (at
least in current master):

ckan.simple_search = 1

And disable use of SOLR (though not all features may work perfectly).

> When I try to connect to http://127.0.0.1:5000/, I have the ckan
> environement displaying with a warning : 'internal server error'
>
> Do you think I can fix it ?

Get your SOLR connection working :-)

Rufus