The challenge I was facing, I had written a script to scan barcodes and use Google book API to view the contents.  However, a snippet of the JSON response

I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories.

First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc.

This article works through the steps to update dependencies in package.json file to the latest version.

Use npm-check-updates or npm outdated to suggest the latest versions.

npm-check-updates is a utility that automatically adjusts a package.json with the latest version of all dependencies

Focusing on the ckan.ini file (/etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini).  When I run the commands to recreate the database tables for CKAN:

cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan
ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini db init

The response I'm getting is:

Finding the issue with a server 500 error

The Nginx error logs are showing too much detail.

Nginx logs and test

There are no errors in the nginx log and sudo nginx -t looks fine

sudo nginx -t

Response

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Following the instructions on CKAN DataStore with a little information.

Enable the plugin

In your CKAN config file (/etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini), update the datastore plugin

ckan.plugins = datastore

Supervisor running as root error when running the command

sudo service supervisor status

Response error

604 CRIT Server 'unix_http_server' running without any HTTP authentication checking

Check the supervisord.conf file in the directory

cd /etc/supervisor/

The file content was

Supervisor running as root error when running the command

sudo service supervisor status

Response error

892 CRIT Supervisor is running as root. Privileges were not dropped because no user is specified in the config file. If you intend to run as root, you can set user=root in the config file to avoid this message.

Check the supervisord.conf file in the directory

Listen in on the ports being used on your server.  To do so, run the command

netstat -a | grep tcp

If netstat is not install, then you'll be prompted to run the install script

sudo apt install net-tools

Response

Error with Nginx

When running an Nginx test, the following response was being presented: