[ckan-dev] Internal Server Error while adding dataset

Fri Jul 11 06:03:47 UTC 2014

Hi Bhavesh,

What is the username of your linux user?

Can you try the following command and see if it works?

chown -R username /var/lib/ckan/default

Regards,

Hayden Waring
OpenGovGear
www.opengovgear.com

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Library IT <libraryit at iimahd.ernet.in>
wrote:

> Dear Hayden,
>
> We have follow the steps to install CKAN :
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/1197-rtd-fix/install-from-source.html
>
> I think we are not using CKAN through apache it's through Jetty & apache
> solr.
>
> Thanks,
> Bhavesh
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Hayden Waring <hayden at opengovgear.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bhavesh,
>>
>> Are you serving CKAN through apache?
>>
>> Hayden Waring
>> OpenGovGear
>> www.opengovgear.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Library IT <libraryit at iimahd.ernet.in>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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