Initialise your Capacitor config​

To initialise Capacitor use the CLI questionnaire:

npx cap init

On executing the above command, you will be prompted to answer a few questions for your app such as your app's name and the package ID.

Run the NPX commands to update the app

npm run build && npx cap sync

Run app with live reload

ionic cap run {platform} -l --external

Replace {platform} with Android or iOS depending on your environment as follows

Goal: Restrict content access through username and password entry on an Nginx server.

1: Apache Utilities Package

First, update your server’s package index:

sudo apt update

Check if the utilities package exists in your environment by executing the command

dpkg --get-selections | grep apache

Response:

Reviewing CKAN extensions and listing the extensions that have been created / modified in the past three years/

Approaches to resolving “Module not specified” Error in Android Studio

When attempting to run or debug the application on Android Studio you can come across the error “Module not specified” in the Android Studio.  This article will outline approaches I took to get a resolution to this issue.

Working in Android Studio when attempting to run a project I had the following error

Unable to determine application id: com.android.tools.idea.run.ApkProvisionException: ERROR: APK path is not specified for module "android"

CKAN extensions - adding to your installation

Following the information on the CKAN site

Use the CKAN create command to create an empty extension:

Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

. /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate

Then check your location is

Securing sensitive content is essential for protecting data integrity and user privacy. One effective way to implement security is by restricting access to specific directories or resources using either Apache or Nginx authentication tools. This provides a comprehensive reference for configuring password protection on both Apache and Nginx web servers using the htpasswd utility.

Before you can run CKAN for the first time, you need to run db init to initialise your database:

ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini db init

If this fails due to a permission issue, then the user and group assigned are incorrect.  Or if you are a root user, you can use sudo

sudo ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini db init

If you forget this step you'll see a 500 server error:

Working through a CKAN installation on Ubuntu 20.04

User sees a server 500 error.

syslog shows: ckan-worker:ckan-worker-00 FATAL Exited too quickly (process log may have details)

Information:

syslog