okfn/ckan — pull request #807 by domoritz (2013-04-24 17:34:44+00:00)
Title: error using curl test after following datastore setup instructions

This is a follow on related to comment https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/269#issuecomment-12519785 and follow on comments. I installed from source master branch.

I followed through the data store setup instructions and things went smoothly. To test it out I tried the curl command suggested:

curl -X GET "http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=_table_metadata"

At first this wasn't working. I was getting the same error as @seanh as mentioned in the comment. To test other parts of the system, I ran the development server from the command line, i.e.

paster serve development.ini

I then registered a user and clicked on a few links. Surmising that the database may have been initialized in some way, possibly addressing the problem, I tried the curl request/query again, and it worked. It will be hard to reproduce this, since I'd need to reinstall again from scratch, but hopefully it will provide some hints toward a fix.