CKAN: Ticket #1802: Investigate CKAN deployment on Windows

dread — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:28:38 GMT

Current progress - I have got most of the dependencies installed - many by pip, but some I had to revert to Windows msi installers. Pad with details here: http://ckan.okfnpad.org/windows. So far done: 1 day.

dread — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:48:01 GMT

I've achieved CKAN running with paster and without SOLR (using simple_search).

Running locally on an old XP machine, performance seems fine - no noticeable issues.

I installed most things into a pyenv using pip. pyutilib, psycopg2 and lxml were slightly problematic, but I have workarounds.

I had problems pip and svn and the Cygwin window, so reverted to DOS prompt. I still had the Cygwin tools installed though, so next step is to try it without these at all - they are a big overhead.

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dread — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:45:16 GMT

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Spent so far 1.75d

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dread — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:14:57 GMT

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Refined install without using Cygwin - this seems a little easier.
Added example Apache & modwsgi deployment.
Documented extensively at: http://wiki.ckan.org/CKAN_install_on_Windows
Have not tried SOLR on Windows - I'm not convinced this is high priority, and normal install should be fine as it is so separate from CKAN.

Spent another 0.5d. Total spent 2.25d