From CKAN

Setting up a CKAN farm for hosting multiple instances of CKAN off a single codebase.

Setup

• install from apt repository as detailed in manual
• copy /usr/bin/ckan-std-install to temp location, modify $INSTANCE and run
• set up a virtualenv (install python-virtualenv) in /etc/ckan/common with pip list at /etc/ckan/pip-common.txt

 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-disqus#egg=ckanext-disqus      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-follower#egg=ckanext-follower      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-googleanalytics#egg=ckanext-googleanalytics      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-stats#egg=ckanext-stats      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-wordpresser#egg=ckanext-wordpresser      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-solr#egg=ckanext-solr      
 -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial#egg=ckanext-spatial 

• follow the instructions on Solr Search
• add virtualenv to wsgi script::

 env_dir = '/etc/ckan/common/bin'      
 activate_this = os.path.join(env_dir, 'activate_this.py')      
 execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))    

• run paster db init
• run ckanext-spatial extension db setup
• create default user, name admin, password password via WUI
• lock down the instance as per http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/authorization.html#publisher-mode (see also Workflows)
• remove create-user from reader on system
• enable plugins as needed (and install more from Extensions)

Todo

• make about page customizable
• extras on package page
• css and similar config