[ckan-dev] Internal Server Error while adding dataset

Fri Jul 11 05:53:33 UTC 2014

Dear Hayden Waring,

thanks for your mail..

we have set the permission of filestore folder.. to 777 as well as the
ownership to www-data.
but still it's showing the internal server error while click on
Next:Additional Info button.

Bhavesh

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Hayden Waring <hayden at opengovgear.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Tan
>> Data Infrastructure Specialist, eResearch SA
>>
>> phone: +61 8 8313 2184
>> Mob: +61 407 268 270
>> email: jason.tan at ersa.edu.au
>> web: http://www.ersa.edu.au
>>
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