ckan 500 error, cant find solr, ubuntu 14.04

Question

I installed tomcat/solr following the instructions found here and ckan following these instructions on my ubuntu 14.04. since the installation instructions of ckan is based on jetty, i skipped the part that says

Edit the Jetty configuration file (/etc/default/jetty) and change the following variables:

NO_START=0            # (line 4)
JETTY_HOST=127.0.0.1  # (line 15)
JETTY_PORT=8983       # (line 18)

I think that might be the problem cos i cant find where to set up solr. When i try to run ckan paster serve /etc/ckan/default/development.ini i get these errors/warnings

2015-06-07 09:27:29,048 ERROR [ckan.lib.search.common] [Errno 111] Connection refused Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/search/common.py", line 51, in is_available
conn.query(":", rows=1)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 703, in query return self.select(*args, **params)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 798, in call xml = self.raw(**params)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 823, in raw rsp = conn._post(self.selector, request, conn.form_headers)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 646, in _post self._reconnect()

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 625, in _reconnect self.conn.connect()

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 772, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection raise err error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

2015-06-07 09:27:29,111 WARNI [ckan.lib.search] Problems were found while connecting to the SOLR server

2015-06-07 09:27:30,449 ERROR [ckan.lib.search.common] [Errno 111] Connection refused Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/search/common.py", line 51, in is_available conn.query(":", rows=1)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 703, in query return self.select(*args, **params)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 798, in call xml = self.raw(**params)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 823, in raw rsp = conn._post(self.selector, request, conn.form_headers)

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 646, in _post self._reconnect()

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/solr/core.py", line 625, in _reconnect self.conn.connect()

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 772, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection raise err

error: [Errno 111] Connection refused 2015-06-07 09:27:30,454

WARNI [ckan.lib.search] Problems were found while connecting to the SOLR server

2015-06-07 09:27:30,792 CRITI [ckan.lib.uploader] Please specify a ckan.storage_path in your config for your uploads

Starting server in PID 4186. serving on 0.0.0.0:5000 view at http://127.0.0.1:5000

i found the solr xml file, but i couldnt see what i should change.

any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem was that for some reason ckan installation by default, on the config file (default located at /etc/ckan/development.ini or /etc/ckan/production.ini) has this line solr_url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr commented. In my case i had to change the port 8983 to 8080, since this is for jetty and not tomcat, that i use.