installing ckan from package

stpes

1. install the ckan package

   1. update ubuntu’s package index

       $ sudo apt-get update
      

   2. install packages ckan requires

       $ sudo apt-get install -y nginx apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi libpq5
      
       $ sudo a2enmod wsgi
       $ sudo service apache2 restart
      

   3. download ckan package

       $ wget http://packaging.ckan.org/python-ckan_2.5-trusty_amd64.deb
      

   4. install the ckan package

       $ sudo dpkg -i python-ckan_2.5-trusty_amd64.deb
      

2. install postgresql and solr

   1. install

       $ sudo apt-get install -y postgresql solr-jetty
      

   2. setup solr for ckan

   3. setup postgresql for ckan

3. update config and init database

   1. edit ckan config file

       $ pico /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
      
       # setup site_id
       ckan.site_id = default
      
       # setup site_url
       ckan.site_url = http://demo.ckan.org
      

   2. init ckan database

       $ sudo ckan db init
      

   3. optionally setup datastore and datapusher check datastore extension

   4. optionally enable file uploads check filestore and file uploads

4. restart apache and nginx

        $ sudo service apache2 restart
        $ sudo service nginx restart
   

5. you’re done

        # in web browser
        http://localhost
   

fixed

1. Server Error An internal server error occurred

   1. install packages

       $ apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev
       $ apt-get install python-lxml