Trouble when I running CKAN

Question

I am new with CKAN. I installed it in my computer. I followed all the steps, I saw that Solr runs ok, but when I would like to run the program, I started PostgreSQL and Jetty, I wrote:

. /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan
paster serve /etc/ckan/default/development.ini

the aplication returned me SolrException: HTTP code=404, reason=Not Found. I am a bit lost.

Thank you so much.

Answer 1

It sounds like you have configured your solr_url wrong in your development.ini, so when CKAN tries to contact SOLR on it, it gets a 404.

I suggest you check your solr_url:

grep solr_url /etc/ckan/default/development.ini

which should give you something like solr_url = http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr for a single SOLR core or solr_url = http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/ckan-schema-2.0 for multi-core.

To check SOLR is working, try the admin page with a browser, such as elinks:

elinks http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr

and check you get the 'Solr Admin' page. (BTW it's the same URL path for both single and multicore setups). If you are running multi-core, check that the last part of the solr_url matches the schema name of the core you want.