[ckan-discuss] Some problems installing ckan

Wed Feb 22 15:34:39 GMT 2012

On 22 February 2012 15:27, Ruben Martin <ruben.martin at fundacionctic.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Rufus
>
> We followed the current package installation instructions in the web manual,
> so version is 1.5.1 (and so appears below in the footer of the pages)
>
> Yes, I am logged in when i try to upload a file. But after the selection of
> a file and before i click on the Add button, this message appears:
> "Failed to get credentials for storage upload. Upload cannot proceed"
> Maybe it is trying to connect with Webstore ?
>
> I have just deny visitors the create-user permission:
> sudo -u ckanstd paster --plugin=ckan roles deny reader create-user -c
> /etc/ckan/std/std.ini
> sudo -u ckanstd paster --plugin=ckan roles deny anon_editor create-user -c
> /etc/ckan/std/std.ini
>
> and after restarting, the register link is *not* hidden, but now when you
> access the register page, it shows you this message "Unauthorized to create
> a user" (when not logged in). But anyway that is an improvement.

Just addressing this point, this is not a use case we've addressed
with the standard theme before, so I think you've spotted a useful
improvement we can make. It should be simple to fix too. I've created
us a ticket:
http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1827

David

>
>
> 2012/2/20 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>>
>> On 19 February 2012 13:42, Ruben Martin <ruben.martin at fundacionctic.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello from CTIC, Spain
>>
>> Welcome!
>>
>> > We are assessing now the use of ckan for a spanish council
>> > administration,
>> > our first production deployment. We have two questions, maybe you can
>> > help
>>
>> Great to hear!
>>
>> > us here because we cant solve them through the documentation.
>> >
>> > - Is there an easy way of preventing non logged users from registering.
>> > CKAN
>> > would operate in ‘publisher mode’, but they would like admin to be the
>> > only
>> > role allowed to make new users/registrations (via web). The register
>> > link
>> > can be hidden changing the template, but not the register page itself.
>>
>> Yes, there is an easy way to hide this (which should also hide
>> register link ...). Just do:
>>
>> paster --plugin=ckan roles -c my.ini deny reader create-user
>> paster --plugin=ckan roles -c my.ini deny anon_editor create-user
>>
>> To explain: there exists a create-user action which allows creation of
>> users. Anonymous users are called 'visitor' and roles assigned can be
>> seen by doing:
>>
>> paster --plugin=ckan rights visitor
>>
>> We're interested in role on the System rather than individual objects
>> and at least on my system visitor is assigned anon_editor role. Thus
>> removing the create-user action from the anon_editor role will do what
>> you want -- deny non-logged in the users the ability to sign up.
>>
>> > - We have a problem with the uploading of files. It seems the extension
>> > is
>> > functioning correctly but when we select a file a click on "Add" button,
>> > the
>> > circle
>> > just keeps spinning with no result. File name does not have any spaces.
>> > May
>> > some we lack some configuration:
>>
>> Are you logged in? There is a known UX bug whereby non-logged in users
>> hang for upload because they are not allowed (but this auth failure
>> does not show up). See <http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1553>. In general
>> this shouldn't be an issue because most sites do not allow editing by
>> anonymous users.
>>
>> > # Add any CKAN plugins here. Note: This line is required to be here for
>> > # packaging, even if it is empty.
>> > ckan.plugins = storage
>> >
>> > ## OFS configuration
>> > ckanext.storage.bucket = ckan
>> > ofs.impl = pairtree
>> > ofs.storage_dir = /home/ruben/ckan/storage
>>
>> Which version of CKAN are you running?
>>
>> Rufus
>
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