[ckan-discuss] Unable to authenticate upload

[Sean Hammond]

> I am a new user of ckan. Everything looks great except I got this
> issue when I try to upload the data to my local installation of ckan. 
> 
> So basically when I try to upload the data file while registering a
> new dataset on my local ckan instance, it reports"unable to
> authenticate upload". My system is ubuntu 12.04 with ckan 2.0. Anybody
> got similary problem? Thanks!

Hi, it sounds like you haven't setup the filestore correctly:

http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/filestore.html

Here are some things to check:

Do you have argparse installed? pip install argparse

Do you have pairtree installed? pip install pairtree

Have you set the ofs.impl and ofs.storage_dir values in your config
file?

Does the ofs.storage_dir directory exist? Does it have the right
permissions?

Finally, do you have a stack trace from CKAN showing an error? Depending
on how you're running CKAN, this would either be printed to the terminal
or would be written to a log file in /var/log/apache2/