[CKAN-support] multiple instances - filestore config not working

Mon Dec 9 15:50:48 UTC 2013

Hi George,

Can you try putting this in your config file for the ssq site:

   ckan.api_url = /ssq

And for the latest site:

   ckan.api_url = /latest

And let me know if that fixes the problem.

In general I wouldn't recommend setting up CKAN sites at non-root URLs, 
this is not how most people use CKAN and it's not the configuration that 
we test CKAN with, so there can be bugs. However, we did test this setup 
about six months ago and fixed some bugs, so it should work.

If the sub-URLs continue to cause problems, it might be better to have 
subdomains, for example. ssq.opendata.xvt.com.au and 
latest.opendata.xvt.com.au (this is know to work)

 > I’ve just run into a problem setting up the Filestore. I’ve setup
> multiple CKAN instances running under apache – using virtualhosts.
>
> These are the two instances:
>
> *opendata.xvt.com.au/ssq <http://opendata.xvt.com.au/ssq>*
> (just something I’m setting up to help demo things for SSQ on an ad hoc
> basis)
> CKAN version 2.0
>
> *opendata.xvt.com.au/latest <http://opendata.xvt.com.au/latest>*
> (an instance I’m intending on keeping at the latest release version)
> CKAN version 2.2
>
> I can’t get the filestore working for either instance with this
> configuration. That is, I can’t get the ‘file upload’ button to appear
> in the add resource page. I saw that someone else on the ckan-dev
> mailing list had what looks to be the same problem but there’s no
> solution. Here’s the end of the thread:
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2013-April/004417.html
>
> I’m using the relevant Filestore instructions for each instance i.e.
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/filestore.html for version 2.2, and
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-2.0/filestore.html for version 2.0
>
> So I think it could be the use of sub urls to point to each instance.
> I’m not aware of any other problems that may have been caused by this
> configuration.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> George
>
> *George Sattler*
>
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>
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