[ckan-dev] Maintenance mode

Thu Apr 7 16:09:08 UTC 2016

David,

thanks for the update. It's good to know that everything goes through the
API so that blocking writes there is a possibility. However, that means
that users can still start to add/edit data and only receive an error when
they try to submit their changes. So, as you said, one would at least need
some kind of popup message on logins, although that would miss users that
are already logged in. So maybe one could also change the edit templates so
that they show a notice instead of their input form when maintenance mode
is enabled.

Unfortunately I currently don't have the time to implement this properly.
However, I might have in the future and I'd like to keep track of the idea
so I'd like to file a ticket. Should that ticket go to ideas-and-roadmap or
to ckan?

Florian

"ckan-dev" <ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org> schrieb am 07.04.2016
16:00:12:

> Von: David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
> An: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>,
> Datum: 07.04.2016 16:00
> Betreff: Re: [ckan-dev] Maintenance mode
> Gesendet von: "ckan-dev" <ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org>
>
> Florian,
>
> I believe that refers to a bit of middleware:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apachemiddleware/0.1.1
> The source repo is long gone, but you could install it and read the
> source - it's very short. I think it just returns friendly 503 error
> if you try to do a POST request, which will ensure that no writes
> occur, because the edit forms being submitted and writes to the API.
> However you will still need to add a banner, or pop-up message when
> someone tries to log-in, explaining what's going on. This would be far
> better than the whole site being down.
>
> I think this would be a great contribution to ckan core, but I'd want
> to confer - it might be solved better on other sites. I'd like to know
> what Django, Drupal etc do about this - no doubt there is something we
> can learn.
>
> David
>
> On 1 April 2016 at 08:19,  <Florian.Brucker at mb.karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to put my live CKAN installation into read-only
> > maintenance mode so that users can continue the site but cannot make
any
> > changes. This would allow me to safely upgrade CKAN in the background
> > without risking content inconsistencies.
> >
> > It seems that such a feature was added in 1.3 [0], but I couldn't find
any
> > information about it in the current documentation. Is this feature
still
> > available?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Florian
> >
> > [0] http://ckan.org/2011/02/18/ckan-v1-3-released/
> >
> >
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