[ckan-discuss] CKAN documentation - Upgrade to 1.6, AWS instance types

Tue Apr 10 10:13:09 BST 2012

Hey, thanks for this. I'll look into your problem with the upgrade
instructions

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:33:36PM +0200, ckan at fwd.at wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to comment the latest documentation update on ckan.org:
> 
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/install-from-package.html#run-the-package-installer
> 
> 1.) The upgrade from CKAN 1.5/1.5.1 to 1.6 didn't work from the package
> installer.
> 
> Although we removed CKAN and even removed everything related to CKAN from
> the file system,
> the upgrade still didn't work.
> The installation itself printed the upgrade to 1.6 worked, but it didn't
> show up in the web frontend (still release 1.5.1).
> Only a complete reset of the image and a fresh install of CKAN 1.6 worked
> finally.
> 
> 2.) Regarding the documentation of the EC2 amazon AWS image:
> 
> The following is written in the docs:
> "Warning: No image other than ami-3693a542 will work with CKAN."
> 
> This image (ami-3693a542) only runs as a "Small" instance, which is quite
> expensive and not
> eligible for the free aws tier for 1 year.
> 
> We successfully installed and run CKAN 1.6 with the image "ami-fb665f8f"
> (AMI: ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-lucid-10.04-amd64-server-20120221
> (ami-fb665f8f)),
> which is of instance type "Micro".
> 
> Maybe the documentation should be updated to let users know of more
> cheaper options
> of running CKAN in the AWS cloud.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Johannes
> 
> 
> 
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