Error when trying to setting up the CKAN filestore with local storage: Permission Denied

ckan, python

Solution

Permission denied: '/var/lib/ckan/default/storage'

It looks like you don't have permission to read and write to this directory. Try running these commands in a terminal:

sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/lib/ckan/default
sudo chmod -R u+rwx /var/lib/ckan/default

Problem

I set up the local file storage according to these steps http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/filestore.html Create location ``` sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/ckan/default ``` I confirm the location exists and is in the right location I uncomment the lines ``` ofs.impl = pairtree ofs.storage_dir = /var/lib/ckan/default ``` I confirmed I have pairtree and argparse installed I am using jetty as the web server not Apache so I do ``` sudo chown jetty /var/lib/ckan/default sudo chmod u+rwx /var/lib/ckan/default sudo service jetty restart ``` Then I run this command to start my site ``` paster serve /etc/ckan/default/development.ini ``` I then get this stack trace back, I am doing all of these commands inside my virtual environment ``` 2013-12-04 17:39:46,369 WARNI [ckan.lib.uploader] Please use config option ckan.storage_path instaed of ofs.storage_path Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('PasteScript==1.7.5', 'console_scripts', 'paster')() File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 104, in run invoke(command, command_name, options, args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 143, in invoke exit_code = runner.run(args) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 238, in run result = self.command() File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/serve.py", line 284, in command relative_to=base, global_conf=vars) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/serve.py", line 321, in loadapp **kw) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 247, in loadapp return loadobj(APP, uri, name=name, **kw) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 272, in loadobj return context.create() File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 710, in create return self.object_type.invoke(self) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 146, in invoke return fix_call(context.object, context.global_conf, **context.local_conf) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/deploy/util.py", line 56, in fix_call val = callable(*args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/config/middleware.py", line 156, in make_app os.makedirs(path) File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/ckan/default/storage' ```

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