Installing CKAN on OSX 10.10.5

Install_CKAN_on_OSX10.10.5.txt

Reference: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/Installing-CKAN-2.2.1-on-Mac-OS-X-10.10.1

0. Homebrew, python27, git, wget; xcode command line tool, java JDK 6+
1. http://blog.bolshchikov.net/post/50277857673/installing-tomcat-on-macos-with-homebrew
2. pip install mercurial
3. pip install virtualenv
4. brew install postgres
4a.initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E UTF8

To have launchd start postgresql at login:
  ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load postgresql now:
  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
  postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
5. createuser -S -D -R -P ckan_default
6. createdb -O ckan_default ckan_default -E utf-8

(default):pip install -e 'git+https://github.com/ckan/ckan.git@ckan-2.2.3#egg=ckan'
(default): pip install -r /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/requirements.txt

Create a CKAN config file

Create a directory to contain the site's config files:

(default):sudo mkdir -p /etc/ckan/default
(default):sudo chown -R 'whoami' /etc/ckan/
Change to the ckan directory and create a CKAN config file:

(default): cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan
(default): paster make-config ckan /etc/ckan/default/development.ini
Edit the development.ini

vi /etc/ckan/default/development.ini
sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://ckan_default:<pass>@localhost/ckan_default

Link to who.ini

(default): ln -s /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/who.ini /etc/ckan/default/who.ini

7. brew install solr14
To start solr:
    solr path/to/solr/config/dir

Now you need to set solr's schema.xml file:

(default):cd /usr/local/Cellar/solr14/1.4.1/libexec/example
(default):sudo mv solr/conf/schema.xml solr/conf/schema.xml.backup
(default):sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/config/solr/schema.xml solr/conf/schema.xml

8. sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/solr14/1.4.1/libexec/example/webapps/solr.war /usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/solr.war
9. /usr/local/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Configure:

cd /usr/local/apache-tomcat/webapps/solr/WEB-INF
vi web.xml

Add the following code:

<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>solr/home</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-value>/usr/local/Cellar/solr14/1.4.1/libexec/example/solr</env-entry-value>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
</env-entry>

Create database tables

(default): cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan
(default): paster db init -c /etc/ckan/default/development.ini
You should see Initialising DB: SUCCESS

10. mkdir /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/public/uploads
11. vi /etc/ckan/default/development.ini
ckan.storage_path = /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/public/uploads

(default):vi /etc/ckan/default/development.ini
solr_url = http://127.0.0.1:8080/solr

(default):paster serve /etc/ckan/default/development.ini

I might have missed to record some steps and might have some mistakes in writing this. Please let me know if you do find some.