CKAN: Ticket #1040: File system mounted

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dread — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:32:02 GMT

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Fixed by James in 904f1f36a672 for 1.3.2

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dread — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:32:10 GMT

status changed from new to closed
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dread — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:42:58 GMT

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theme set to none

The problem arises when you do two things together:

Have code like this in a CKAN extension's plugin.py:

        config['extra_public_paths'] = ','.join([our_public_dir,
                config.get('extra_public_paths', '')])

which will have a trailing blank value (unless you set extra_public_paths in the config file)

extra_public_paths=['/some/path/', '']

Run CKAN with this code:

        extra_public_paths = config.get('extra_public_paths')
        if extra_public_paths:
            static_parsers = [StaticURLParser(public_path) \
                              for public_path in \
                              extra_public_paths.split(',')] + static_parsers

Introduced in #340 https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/0593c3e5050882a9dbf54fb6c263f4a2f1de2097#ckan/config/middleware.py in CKAN 1.0.2 This was made safer in https://github.com/okfn/ckan/commit/e0d5f02168116a18a7aeb7b058e4160bbd402a02#ckan/config/middleware.py for CKAN 1.3.2 (it ignores blank paths)

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dread — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:43:32 GMT

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dread — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:24 GMT

Here are all the CKAN instances potentially involved in this issue:

ckan.net / DGU

These suffered this problem briefly and were fixed 15/3/11

opengov_es http://opengov.es/ 1.2

This does not have a theme extension. Is not serving files from root.

nosdonnees_fr http://www.nosdonnees.fr/ 1.3.1a

This does have a theme extension but does not seem to have a trailing blank public path since it is not serving files from root.