[ckan-dev] file storage setup in 1.7

Thu May 24 13:43:09 UTC 2012

On 5/24/12 4:51 AM, "Ross Jones" <ross.jones at okfn.org> wrote:

>Hi Jim
>
>If you're using 1.7 you shouldn't need ckanext-storage at all, it might
>just 
>confuse the situation so probably best if you disable it (remove it from
>your .ini).
>
>Could you post your .ini to pastebin with any sensitive (database) info
>removed? 
>Everytime this happens to me it is because I've forgotten to install
>pairtree
>or have set ofs.storage_dir to a folder where I don't have permissions.
>
>I'm assuming you are using local file storage, in which case it might be
>worth seeing 
>if CKAN has created a pairtree_version0_1 file (empty) in the folder
>specified in 
>ofs.storage_dir. If not create one and see if that makes a difference.
>
>Ross

Jim,

Building on Ross's suggestions, there may be several things that are
broken and need to be reported as bugs:

1. python-argparse debian package dependency may be missing.
2. python-pairtree debian package dependency may be missing.
3. {ofs.storage_dir}/pairtree_root/ directory has to be explicitly created
with www-data:www-data ownership and mode 755.
4. {ofs.storage_dir}/pairtree_version0_1 file has to be explicitly touched
with www-data:www-data ownership and mode 644.

The mailing list has similar threads from the March/April time frame where
the same problem was reported.

Hope this helps.

Salman

>
>
>On 24 May 2012, at 06:27, Jim Craner wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to configure CKAN 1.7 (package install) on an Ubuntu 10.04
>> appliance and I'm having some problems with the file storage
>> functionality.  I'm trying to use local file storage based on these
>> instructions:
>> 
>> http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.7/filestore.html
>> 
>> In addition to the settings recommended in that doc, I also did a "pip
>> install ckanext-storage" and added "storage" to my .ini file's list of
>> extensions.
>> 
>> 1) When I try to upload a file as a resource, I am able to select the
>> file but when I click the "upload" button I get the "Failed to get
>> credentials for storage upload. Upload cannot proceed" error message
>> (I am logged in as the admin user).
>> 
>> 2) When I try to upload a file via the /storage/upload method, I am
>> again able to select the file but attempting to upload returns a
>> generic "Server Error / an internal error occurred" message.  In the
>> /var/log/apache2/INSTANCENAME.error.log, I can see dozens of error
>> messages related to "/storage/upload" and "/storage/upload_handle" but
>> I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
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