[ckan-dev] Wordpress and CKAN

Mon Feb 24 16:45:05 UTC 2014

Thanks for all your help everyone, I managed to get it up and running today
:)

Thanks,

...

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On 23 February 2014 22:49, Stéphane Guidoin <stephane at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> 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,
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This year I am running the London and Yorkshire marathons.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  <http://www.justgiving.com/jamesryanbell>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To sponsor me for these and various others runs throughout this year
>>>> and last please go visit: http://justgiving.com/jamesryanbell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All money raised will go to Diabetes UK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> rgds,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reinier Battenberg
>>>>
>>>> Director
>>>>
>>>> Mountbatten Ltd.
>>>>
>>>> www.mountbatten.net
>>>>
>>>> tel: +256 758 801749
>>>>
>>>> twitter: @batje
>>>>
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