[ckan-dev] "Upload a file" option is gone

Wed Aug 21 20:58:13 UTC 2013

I agree with your statement, but if it requires login by a site administrator to view the version page, then this isn't an issue.

On Aug 21, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Although I understand that this information is useful for debugging, I would rather not give too much information in the interface. It helps a lot for a cracker to find vulnerable CKAN instances, whenever a new vulnerability is discovered. Specially if it's in a search engine-crawlable page.
> 
> Cheers,
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> 2013/8/20 Patrick West <westp at rpi.edu>
> Let me emphasis the bit about finding the version via the CKAN UI. Where's the version page?
> 
> In my browser I viewed the page source and found this:
> 
> <meta name="generator" content="ckan 2.0" />
> 
> It would be nice to have a page that displays the version of ckan, build information maybe, links to ckan, ckan documentation, versions of any extensions installed, even a message that says "You may want to consider upgrading to the latest version 2.2", or whatever the latest version is, with a link to do the upgrade. The api version. And whatever other version information that may be relevant.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Regarding finding which version of CKAN you are using, see this:
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17362874/how-do-i-find-what-version-of-ckan-i-am-running
>> 
>> 
>> Adrià
>> 
>> On 19 August 2013 14:04, Patrick West <westp at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>> After searching for a way to discover the version via the CKAN UI, I ended
>>> up in the src directory and looked in the CHANGELOG.txt file. We're running
>>> 2.0. I haven't had a chance to upgrade.
>>> 
>>> This issue was resolved, just FYI. The issue was that we had installed in a
>>> subdirectory, so had to modify the site_url and api_url settings in the
>>> config accordingly.
>>> 
>>> Patrick
>>> 
>>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> What version of CKAN are you running? In your config file, do you have the
>>> Storage settings in your CKAN config file filled out?
>>> 
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>>> On 15 August 2013 07:16, Congrui Li <lic10 at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> After we installed ckan on our server, we only have two options to add
>>>> resources when creating a new dataset: "Link to a file" and "Link to an
>>>> API". The "Upload a file" option is not even there.
>>>> Someone had this problem before?
>>>> Anyone knows why?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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