[@OKFNau] CKAN

[Daniel Tosello]

Lachlan,

If this is for Gender Diversity at UNTL, I may have it running already...
Awks.

Otherwise i'd recommend trying it first from the Ubuntu 12.04 deb package
on a fresh Ubuntu installation, if nothing else so you have a reference to
troubleshoot other platforms from... I've had little luck in the past with
getting it to run smoothly in environments that weren't set up specifically
for it, too... it's quite fussy about what libraries it will work well
with, and i've never had time to isolate which versions of things it likes
best.

I'd hazard a guess and say that the problems you're having aren't actually
related to wsgi at all, and the next thing i'd check would be database
connectors. On that note, are you seeing consistent errors at registration
& login, or are they intermittent?

Using it (as an end user, mind you) is easy, but before that step there's
quite a bit of potential work in customization. Note that administration
has been split into two halves, with 'administrators' accessing the
frontend via http and 'maintainers' accessing via ssh & issuing commands
via `paste`.

Hope that helps and isn't awkward.
--Daniel




On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> At the last Melbourne #datahack I met a couple of activists that were
> looking for an instance of CKAN to show to a contingent of East
> Timorese that are coming to Melbourne in late July. They aren't
> technically savvy at all to my knowledge - at least not as sysadmins,
> which is why they were asking for help.
>
> I've just installed CKAN on Ubuntu 14.04 via the source method in a
> virtualenv on my private linode instance which already has a django
> site using fastwgsi on port 9000 and a dozen wordpress sites, all
> behind Nginx. No caching or anything special, it's all pretty
> lightweight tbh.
>
> I mostly have it working, but I've always been poor at fully
> comprehending wsgi, and there are still issues. In particular, the
> wsgi seems to be flaky. The site renders, it looks pretty good, but
> I'm getting 502s on occasion - in particular when trying to register
> or login to the site.
>
> Because I've installed from source, and it's running with some success
> I'm pretty sure the problem lies in the mix of wsgi and virtualenv,
> but I just don't know enough and it's a strange enough combination of
> technologies (virtenv, wsgi, ckan, nginx) and constraints (other sites
> for clients behind nginx, latest Ubuntu= no deb).
>
> I figure I can play around a little with the uwsgi conf file to get it
> right.
>
> After that, I have the age old issue of "I've never used CKAN before"
> - I'm happy to administer, but I expect they will need it to be easy
> enough to use.
>
> How hard is it for beginners to teach themselves to use?
>
> cheers and thanks for the offers - appreciated.
>
> L.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 16 June 2014 16:32, Daniel Tosello <tosello.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lachlan,
> >
> > I've used it a little bit. What do you need to know?
> >
> > --Daniel
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I was wondering how much opportunity people have had to use CKAN?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> L.
> >>
> >> --
> >> The idea is that a beautiful image is frameable. Everything you need
> >> to see is there: It’s everything you want, and it’s very pleasing
> >> because there’s no extra information that you don’t get to see.
> >> Everything’s in a nice package for you. But sublime art is
> >> unframeable: It’s an image or idea that implies that there’s a bigger
> >> image or idea that you can’t see: You’re only getting to look at a
> >> fraction of it, and in that way it’s both beautiful and scary, because
> >> it’s reminding you that there’s more that you don’t have access to.
> >> It’s now sort of left the piece itself and it’s become your own
> >> invention, so it’s personal as well as being scary as well as being
> >> beautiful, which is what I really like about art like that.
> >>
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> The idea is that a beautiful image is frameable. Everything you need
> to see is there: It’s everything you want, and it’s very pleasing
> because there’s no extra information that you don’t get to see.
> Everything’s in a nice package for you. But sublime art is
> unframeable: It’s an image or idea that implies that there’s a bigger
> image or idea that you can’t see: You’re only getting to look at a
> fraction of it, and in that way it’s both beautiful and scary, because
> it’s reminding you that there’s more that you don’t have access to.
> It’s now sort of left the piece itself and it’s become your own
> invention, so it’s personal as well as being scary as well as being
> beautiful, which is what I really like about art like that.
>
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