[ckan-dev] Core Extensions (QA, Archiver) shouldnt they just work?

Thu Aug 25 15:35:48 UTC 2016

Hello

I just recently set them up on clean Ubuntu 14.04 VMs and they took some work before I started getting results.  I still don't think it's quite right but Archiver/Report/QA all update when I add a new dataset or change an existing one.

To get the plugins to work I had to make sure my nginx configuration was correct - check your path and permissions (www-data user)

Nginx - change in  config file from this:

    # Archived Files
    location /resource_cache {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html/resource_cache;
    }

To this:

    # Archived Files
    location /resource_cache {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

Production.ini - change it from this:

·        ckanext-archiver.archive_dir = /usr/share/nginx/html/resource_cache

·        ckanext-archiver.cache_root_url = http://opendata.angus.gov.uk/resource_cache

To this:

·        ckanext-archiver.archive_dir = /usr/share/nginx/html/resource_cache

·        ckanext-archiver.cache_root_url = http://opendata.angus.gov.uk/resource_cache/  <--added trailing slash

I also had to sort out my celery queue and in the supervisor config file I had to change the following:

·        From command=/usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster --plugin=ckan celeryd --config=/etc/ckan/default/production.ini

·        To command=/usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster --plugin=ckanext-archiver celeryd2 run all --config=/etc/ckan/default/production.ini

The nginx logs had pointers that got me going in the right direction.  Making sure the www-data user can read and write in all the right places helped too.

Ross

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From: ckan-dev [mailto:ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Giles
Sent: 25 August 2016 10:01
To: 'ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org'
Subject: [ckan-dev] Core Extensions (QA, Archiver) shouldnt they just work?

Hi,

My team and I sat down yesterday to try again, to install Archiver (+ Report) and QA. This was on an Ubuntu 12.04 + CKAN 'master' development VM and 14.04 + CKAN production VM.  After a day, neither VM shows the QA or Archiver GUI components. Both VMs failed to install Archiver with the instructions provided.

Being core CKAN developed extensions - am I wrong in thinking that they should just work out of the box? The install instructions should not leave out missing apt-get requirements. These are not extensions developed by outside groups.

OK - so, I will update the instructions with the missing steps. But - has anyone managed to successfully installed these two extensions on an up to date fresh CKAN installation?  Did you also have the same issues?  Is there something else I and my colleague are missing?

Regards Timothy

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