[ckan-dev] Enabling File Upload

Mon Feb 17 11:37:22 UTC 2014

Hi Scott,

Which version of CKAN are you using? This instructions refer to the
latest 2.2 version, if you are using 2.1 or older the instructions are
a bit different

http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.1.2/filestore.html

Adrià

On 14 February 2014 21:22, Muse, Scott <SCOTT.MUSE at libertymutual.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm trying to enable the file upload capability. I followed these
> instructions:
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> Setup file uploads¶
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> To setup CKAN's FileStore with local file storage:
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> 1.      Create the directory where CKAN will store uploaded files:
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> 2. sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/ckan/default
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> 3.      Add the following line to your CKAN config file, after the
> [app:main]line:
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> 4. ckan.storage_path = /var/lib/ckan/default
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> [app:main]
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> use = egg:ckan
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> full_stack = true
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> cache_dir = /tmp/%(ckan.site_id)s/
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> beaker.session.key = ckan
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> ckan.storage_path = /var/lib/ckan/default
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> 5.      Set the permissions of your ckan.storage_path directory. For example
> if you're running CKAN with Apache, then Apache's user (www-data on Ubuntu)
> must have read, write and execute permissions for the ckan.storage_path:
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> 6. sudo chown www-data /var/lib/ckan/default
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> 7. sudo chmod u+rwx /var/lib/ckan/default
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> I then restarted both jetty and the server but I still don't see the file
> upload option when trying to create a dataset. Is there somewhere else I
> should enable this setting?
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> Thanks,
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> -Scott
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