Ticket #1802 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Investigate CKAN deployment on Windows
| Reported by: | dread | Owned by: | dread |
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| Priority: | critical | Milestone: | ckan-sprint-2012-03-05 |
| Component: | ckan | Keywords: | [5d] [a:2.25d] |
| Cc: | rgrp | Repository: | ckan |
| Theme: | none |
Description
See how possible it is to run CKAN on a Windows server.
Plan:
- Get CKAN code and dependencies installed on Windows
- ideally as similar to standard package install as possible
- virtualenv/pip should work
- try Cygwin to help
- SOLR and Postgres could potentially run on other servers if necessary.
- Try to run on Apache
- See if there are any issues
Change History
comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by dread
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.
comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by dread
- Keywords [a:2.25d] added
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
- 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
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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.