Ubuntu

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

Install the CKAN package

Begin by cleaning up your server environment.  Do this by updating Ubuntu’s package index:

sudo apt update

Now you can install the packages that CKAN requires (including ‘git’, which will allow you to install CKAN extensions):

sudo apt install -y libpq5 redis-server nginx supervisor

Response

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Step 1: Java

Check if Java is installed on your server:

Forcing https and www or non-www is a process that I was a custom to through .htaccess.  In fact I had become very strong at managing and working my .htaccess files.  However, what I had become strong in one area, I was oblivious to using other methods.  My bad.

It is really simple to switch users in Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution using the terminal, iTerm2 or your go to shell program.

All you need to do is to know the username and its account password and you can switch users with su command:

su another_username

You’ll be asked to enter the password of the user you want to switch to.