[ckan-dev] Initial Setup of CKAN

Fri Apr 11 02:44:20 UTC 2014

Hi Matt

Please try using this documentation:
http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/installing/install-from-source.html(this
is the latest version of the link that David linked to).

Do you have one server or two different servers? If you have 2 servers, you
need to change a bit of postgres settings. Let me know if that's the case.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 11 April 2014 01:07, David Megginson <david.megginson at megginson.com>wrote:

> 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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