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Invalid command 'WSGIScriptAlias', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configurationAction 'configtest' failed

I got the below error while I was configuring CKAN DataPusher. Invalid command 'WSGIScriptAlias', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configurationAction 'configtest' failed. How can I fix this?
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What's the difference between Organizations & Groups in CKAN?

What are Groups? You can use CKAN Groups to create and manage collections of datasets. This could be to catalogue datasets for a particular project or team, or on a particular theme, or as a very simple way to help people find and search…
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What’s the difference between a dataStore and a database?

I’m in the process of setting up a CKAN instance. I have to setup a postgres database for CKAN to be operated. Additionally I have to set up a dataStore too. I found this question on stackoverflow but didn’t answer my question. How to think in data…
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How do I find what version of CKAN I am running

How can I find what version of CKAN I am running? Preferably programatically or via some machine readable way? Any suggestions?
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Docker Error: Cannot create container for service, no such file or dir

I'm trying to install CKAN via docker-compose: http://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/maintaining/installing/install-from-docker-compose.html If I try to build with: docker-compose up -d --build I keep getting: ERROR: for db Cannot create container for…
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CKAN Development Install Issue: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'css/main.debug.css'

I've done a CKAN development install and am running with debug = true in my development.ini file. On visiting localhost:5000 I get an error with a traceback whose end point is the error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute…
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Alternatives to CKAN

Are you aware of alternatives to CKAN? I am searching for a metadata managing portal software with a similar feature set like CKAN. The implementation would preferably be either LAMP or Java.
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ckan local installation, 500 error on solr JSP support not configured

I am trying to install CKAN on my local computer using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I followed the instructions for installing from source found here and I try to check if solr is running by visiting http://localhost:8983/solr/. I can see that Jetty is running…
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CKAN Error on docker-compose up (Command 'db' not known (you may need to run setup.py egg_info))

I do all the steps written in the docs, after docker-compose up -d --build ckan container go to Exited status docker logs ckan show db:5432 - accepting connections No handlers could be found for logger "ckan.lib.maintain" Command 'db' not known…
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Is CKAN capable of dealing with 100k+ files and TB of data?

What we are wanting to do is create a local data repository for our lab memebers to organize, search upon, access, catalog, reference our data, etc. I feel that CKAN can do all of these things; however, I'm not sure how it will handle these tasks…
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uploading files to a dataset in CKAN / datahub.io through a Java client

I am testing the uploading of files to a dataset on CKAN / datahub.io through a Java client of the API. public String uploadFile() throws CKANException { String returned_json = this._connection.MultiPartPost("", ""); …
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How to add a search filter (facet) option for a custom field in CKAN

How can i add a search filter option (facet) for my custom field in my CKAN instance? i.e. I want to add an option to the left side-bar in this image. I've used CKAN Theme integration in my extension to replace CUSTOM search filter instead of…
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Create CKAN dataset using CKAN API and Python Requests library

I am using CKAN version 2.2 and am trying to automate dataset creation and resource upload. I seem to be unable to create a dataset using the python requests library. I am receiving 400 error code. Code: import requests, json dataset_dict = { …
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CKAN : Upload to datastore failed; Resource too large to download

When i try to upload a large csv file to CKAN datastore it fails and shows the following message Error: Resource too large to download: 5158278929 > max (10485760). I changed the maximum in megabytes a resources upload to ckan.max_resource_size =…
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How to add a new page in CKAN?

I'm using CKAN as my open data portal. It's written in Python using Pylons framework. It uses Postgres as the database. I just want to add a new page similar to about page to display the terms and conditions to the users. About page comes built in.…
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