[ckan-dev] Wordpress and CKAN

Sun Feb 23 22:49:05 UTC 2014

Forgot to give the url of the City of Montréal portal (to see how it
behaves):
http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/

Stéphane

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For the City of Montréal, we used Wordpress along CKAN. The strategy was
> almost the same as what Stefan explained (Note that the wordpresser
> extension is more or less deprecated... it has not been transferred to the
> new CKAN Repo https://github.com/ckan/)
>
> The way we did it is:
> - Apache is serving CKAN and Wordpress "independently"
> - Nginx is used a reverse server + redirection (all the CKAN url
> /groups/*, /packages/*, etc) are directed to CKAN, the remaining to
> Wordpress. Everything is on the same subdomain, there is not dedicated
> subdomain for one of the tool
> - Wordpress also serve the root (/) of the domain and we use CKAN API
> calls to integrate some CKAN stuff on the homepage (like the "hot" packages)
> - The city already had a theme for Wordpress (who was previously used to
> host the data), so a designer worked to integrate the existing design to
> work with CKAN. It's probably the most time intensive task although it is
> not tremendous (few days)
>
>
> There's a guide done by the data.gov.uk team to put CKAN along drupal.
> The same principal applies with drupal (except that with Drupal, it is
> possible to integrate drupal comment module in the CKAN pages which does
> not seem to be possible with Wordpress)
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMRxuwVh7rK-dDRZukspC4y2HlXynF4RGS0mj4OjhVo/edit
>
>
>
> Stéphane
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> for opendata.admin.ch[1] we basically did the same as Reinier by using
>> the same templates/css for both parts, but we used SymfonyCMF [2]. But
>> instead of having two separate domains we used the mod_proxy of Apache [3],
>> to redirect the CKAN-specific requests.
>>
>> So on our server there are 2 webservers running, the one for SymfonyCMF
>> on port 80, and the one for CKAN on port 8080.
>> Using mod_proxy we simply forward the requests to /dataset or
>> /organization to the internally running webserver on port 8080.
>>
>> This makes it transparent for the user and he doesn't even recognize that
>> he changes back and forth between the two running servers.
>>
>> - Stefan
>>
>> [1] http://opendata.admin.ch
>> [2] http://cmf.symfony.com/
>> [3] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Reinier Battenberg <
>> reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We just launched www.data.ug and what we did (with Drupal) was to use a
>>> Drupal theme based on bootstrap. Then in CKAN, we created a theme module
>>> that uses the same bootstrap.css as Drupal. The header and the footer we
>>> just copied from the Drupal HTML to the CKAN theme.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That gave us a 80/20 score of CKAN looking the same as Drupal.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lastly, we did the same as data.gov and run Drupal on the www.data.ugsite and CKAN on a
>>> catalog.data.ug site
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (we also added geonode.org to the mix and did the same thing there.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it still needs work, yes it could be done smarter, but we did it in
>>> a week, without any previous django knowledge.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> While learning we also realized we can integrate this more tighter and
>>> generic, that will be for a later day.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If you want to run everything on 1 domain, than you should use the
>>> apache proxy module to have some subfolders handled by different
>>> applications. That is how data.gov.uk integrates drupal & ckan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Reinier
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday 21 February 2014 15:01:08 James Bell wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>
>>> I am looking to add a Wordpress install that I will use alongside my
>>> CKAN install, at domain.com/blog.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've heard that other people have done this but I can find any docs on
>>> how to do this and I am very new to Ubuntu! Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Reinier Battenberg
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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