[ckan-dev] Problem creating resources after deploy

Mon Nov 21 10:49:36 UTC 2016

This is the very unfortunate behavior, that the CKAN instance is running
with the permissions of the Apache user (www-data in your case) when you
are using the web interface, but with your use "espona" when you are
running e.g. paster commands on the command line.
There are several ways to fix this.

I started to setup a separate user account for CKAN called "ckan", that I
use on the command line, so you I need to switch to this use to run paster
commands etc., once you get used to it, it's actually quite nice (e.g. you
have a separate bash history to look up your commands etc.). And I
configure Apache to run with the "ckan" user as well (you can do this using
the "User" and "Group" directives"). With this setup, I never had any
problems anymore with permissions.

But we have other setups where this is not possible for several reasons, so
we actually setup cronjobs to to "fix" the permissions several times a day.
Don't tell anyone. I'm just posting this here so no one else feels bad for
setting up similar hacks themselves ;)

- Stefan

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:32 AM, <lucia.espona at wsl.ch> wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I just deployed my current CKAN instance following the instructions in
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/installing/deployment.html.
> Everything seems ok, except that I cannot create resources:
>
> [Mon Nov 21 11:15:28.580885 2016] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/data/ckan/default/resources/fba/2f6'
>
> The parent folder has owner 'espona' (my user), should I change the
> ownership to 'www-data'?
> I found a similar wokaround here for an older version:
> https://github.com/datagovua/ckan-vagrant-chef/issues/6
>
> chown -R www-data /data/ckan/default
>
> Is it there some other directory I should change ownership or rights?
>
> Best,
>
> Lucia
>
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