Reconfiguring CKAN in a cloned VM

If you are configuring a cloned VM, there is no need to review the whole stuff: only a few data should be reconf.

Usually, in a cloned machine, you only need to reconfigure the references to the IP address. Anyway you may set up more stuff as you see fit.

Mandatory reconfig

There are a few configurations that may prevent the application to work at all.

As reported in “Solr configuration”, make sure the hostname is resolved somehow.

Also, reconfig the ckan.site_url property defined in “CKAN configuration”.

Other reconfig

If the machine has already run, you may want to clear the CKAN DB, or if security is a concern, you may want to redefine the users and/or their related password. Here a list of what you may want to reset (only related to the CKAN installation):

  • Password for PostgreSQL user ckan
  • Password for PostgreSQL user datastore
  • Password for PostgreSQL user datastorero
  • Password for CKAN sysadmin ckan
  • Clear and reinit db ckan
  • Clear and reinit db datastore
  • Clear and reinit Solr index
  • Clear redis data

System account ckan was created as a nologin account so you don’t need to reset any password for it.