[ckan-dev] Initial Setup of CKAN

Thu Apr 10 19:37:23 UTC 2014

Matt — I've been using Linux for 21 years and have over a dozens of web
apps from scratch in Perl, PHP, and Java, but I *also* found the CKAN setup
complicated, so it's not just you.  Python's use of virtual environments,
etc. makes the applications perversely difficult to deploy compared to
(say) a PHP-based webapp like WordPress or Drupal (though I'm sure there
are benefits of some kind that experienced Python devs appreciate).

Still, I found the instructions at
http://docs.ckan.org/en/1117-start-new-test-suite/install-from-source.htmlwell-written,
and I was able to get a local CKAN instance running on my
Ubuntu-based laptop in about 15 minutes.  There's more work involved to get
a production instance running (and the docs can be a bit more confusing for
anyone but a Python+web guru, especially with the extra complexities of
NGINX for caching and Apache talking to some bizarro Python thingy), but a
local sandbox is a good start.

If you try walking through the docs at the link above and then post here
about the specific steps that go wrong, I suspect the list will be able to
give you good, detailed help.

Cheers, David

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Matt Richardson <
contactus at milwaukeedata.org> wrote:

> So I am very new to Python and have limited experience with Linux.
> Obviously I'm the perfect person to set up a DKAN instance! :) But our
> local data initiative needs a flexible data catalog to empower local
> developers, so here I am. And Now I am stuck. I've asked CKAN and my
> hosting company for help, and no one has been helpful so far.
>
> Any thoughts or willing helpers would be greatly appreciated. To be
> honest, I would rather pay someone a small amount to set up and host the
> instance on their servers, and make sure the software is updated. *Any
> takers on that*?
>
> THE SITUATION
> I've signed up with A2 hosting on a virtual instance of Ubuntu, and got so
> far as initializing the CKAN database. But I am getting an error saying
> that CKAN can't connect to the database. The instance is an Ubuntu server,
> but I am not sure why this isn't working, don't know the best way to make
> this work without opening up the database to listen on every IP.
>
> Thank you!
>
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