[CKAN-support] deployment options

Thu Dec 5 11:26:41 UTC 2013

Hi George,

The difference with deploying just "Apache", and "Apache and Nginx" is that
Nginx can act as a caching frontend reducing the load to Apache. The
default Nginx config we provide in the package and documentation is set to
cache correctly too.

There are a few steps to debugging the problems here:
* Watch Apache and Nginx error logs and access logs simultaneously and hit
the server with a request to see which server is throwing the 404.
* If the request doesn't reach Apache, do you have the "default" Nginx
config in /etc/sites-enabled/ ? Try disabling that (Let me know if that
works, the instructions may need an update if that's the case.
* Check what happens when you visit localhost:8080 (that's Apache
directly). Does that work?

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On 5 December 2013 15:15, George Sattler <George.sattler at xvt.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi Support
>
>
>
> I’d like to find out what considerations I should make when choosing a
> deployment configuration as listed on
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/deployment.html
>
> What’s the difference between deploying with ‘nginx and apache’ and just
> apache?
>
>
>
> Also I’m having some trouble deploying with apache/niginx (as per
> deployment instructions) on a local, non-internet-facing, machine. I just
> get a 404 error and can’t for the life of me work out what is the problem.
> There’s nothing in the logs to suggest anything.
>
>
>
> In the apache config file I have this as the domain name for my site.
>
> ServerName localhost
>
> ServerAlias localhost
>
> I don’t know if this should work or not though. Any suggestions would be
> much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> *George Sattler*
>
> Software Developer/Analyst
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>
>
> Office 03 6224 2377 | Email george.sattler at xvt.com.au
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