[ckan-dev] Internal Server Error while adding dataset

[Hayden Waring]

HI Bhavesh,

I am going to guess you don't have the permissions set properly for your
filestore.

When you go to upload the file ckan tries to access the filestore directory
and fails which gives you the error when hit the add button.

The documentation tells you to change the ownership of the filestore to
www-data. If you are only serving the instance from your local machine you
need to change the owner of the directory to ubuntu or whatever the name of
your user is.

Best of luck,

Hayden Waring
CTO OpenGovGear
www.opengovgear.com


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Jason Tan <jason.tan at ersa.edu.au> wrote:

> HI Bhavesh,
>
> I'm' just taking a a guess here based on the limited info we've got and my
> very limited experience
>
> The most common problems I have noticed with CKAN in my very limited
> experience are CKAN not being able to talk to the database (e.g. database
> server has been rebooted but the db did not come up or a firewall rule was
> reloaded or a network interface somewhere is broken) or permissions on a
> directory on the ckan server.
> E.g. the ofs.storage_dir not being writable by the web server user
>
> If you're getting webserver errors, it would be really useful to include
> web server error log output.
> Often the error is fairly easy to decipher from log output.
>
> Not sure how experienced you are in this space i.e running apps on unix
> hosts, but I'd be looking at my system log e.g. /var/log/messages, the
> webserver error logs e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log
>  /var/log/apache/ssl_error_log  (the paths will vary from distro to
> distro - I'ma redhat guy so those are centos/redhat paths) and running the dmesg
> command.
>
> Also if you are running a distro with selinux  (most redhat based distros
> have it) try typing: getenforce which will tell you if selinux is
> enforcing its policy or not.
>
> If it says enforcing then try temporarily turning it off by running the
> following as root:
> setenforce 0
>
> Usually when something goes wrong there are hints in these kinds of places
> and it is useufl for you to chceck them and if you ask for help to inlcude
> any possibly related messages in your help request.
>
> I believe you can also add logging to CKAN itself while it is running
> under paster, though I can't recall how to do it.
>
> Regards
> Jason Tan
>
>
>
>
> On 11 July 2014 14:20, Library IT <libraryit at iimahd.ernet.in> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are facing one issue while adding Dataset .. It's give us Internal
>> server Error (plx see the screen sort).
>>
>> Also Suppose We have some local files and we want to upload on that
>> dataset then there is no browse option for uploading files from local
>> machine (see the add resource form.png).
>>
>> for that we have try :
>> http://docs.ckan.org/en/1117-start-new-test-suite/filestore.html
>> We have add
>> [app:main]
>> ofs.impl = pairtree
>> ofs.storage_dir = /var/lib/ckan/default
>>
>> as well as
>> ckan.site_url = http://192.168.251.89:5000
>>
>> but it's not working...
>>
>> NOTE : suppose we have change ckan config file then is there any service
>> we have to restart ?
>>
>> Plz help me on this
>>
>> Bhavesh Patel
>>
>
>
>
> --
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>
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