CKAN

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

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

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