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Open Data Portal of the Six City Strategy

This repository provides the open data catalog of the Six City Strategy in Finland.

Live demo at https://demo.dataportaali.com

Getting started

Prerequisites:

Clone the repository and its submodules, and start Vagrant:

git clone https://github.com/6aika/sixodp.git
cd sixodp/
git submodule update --init --recursive
npm install
npm run build
vagrant up

Vagrant installs ansible inside the virtual machine so that Windows users can also automate local builds. Ansible is locked to version 2.3.2 as 2.4 was broken. If the lock is removed, remember to remove lock from jenkins and cloudformation. After Ansible provisions the system, the service will be running in the virtual machine and is available from your host machine at https://10.106.10.10/

User credentials for an administrator are admin:admin, and test:test for a regular user.

To reprovision the server (i.e. to run Ansible) again:

vagrant provision

You can ssh into the server:

vagrant ssh

And you can also run Ansible manually inside the virtual machine:

vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant/ansible
ansible-playbook -v -i inventories/vagrant deploy-all.yml

Development

With Vagrant, the host machine shares the working directory into the virtual machine. The web server uses the CKAN extensions directly from the source code via symlinks. Depending on what you change however, some extra rules apply:

  • If you edit a Jinja template, changes apply instantly (only page refresh required).
  • If you edit styles in /shared you need to compile the modified SASS-files (npm run dev).
  • If you edit Python code of the extensions, you need to restart the WSGI server (vagrant ssh and sudo service apache2 restart).
  • If you edit Javascript, you need to run the frontend build to compile and minify files (vagrant ssh, cd /vagrant/ansible and ansible-playbook -v -i inventories/vagrant frontend-build.yml).

Pulling updates

If there have been updates to submodules, run following commands:

git submodule sync (for making sure that submodule points at the corrent repository in the case that the repository has been forked)
git submodule update --init --recursive

SSL certificates

By default environments use self-signed certificates for HTTPS. To enable Let's Encrypt certificate add following to environment-specific vars (Example)

acmetool_hostnames:
    - "{{ public_facing_hostname }}"
    - some_alternative_example_domain

Repository structure

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├── ansible
│   ├── deploy-all.yml                  Top-level playbook for configuring complete service
│   ├── inventories                     Target server lists
│   ├── roles                           Main configuration
│   └── vars                            Variables common for all roles
│       ├── common.yml                  Variables common for all roles and environments
│       ├── environment-specific        Configuration specific for each deployment env
│       └── secrets-defaults.yml        Default passwords, used in Vagrant
├── ckanext                             Custom CKAN extensions, main source directory
├── doc                                 Documentation
├── shared                              Files shared between CKAN and WordPress. Mainly for shared SASS-styles, which are compiled into separate css-files
├── sixodp                              WordPress related files
└── Vagrantfile                         Configuration for local development environment

Managing translations

Translations are decentralized to separate CKAN extensions. The main ckanext-sixodp_ui extension is used to manage modifications to CKAN core translations while other extensions will contain only extension specific translations. The extensions follow the internalization conventions defined in CKAN v2.6 docs.

Transifex is used to handle the translating work itself and Transifex Client for uploading Transifex resources and downloading new translation files. The project's Transifex page can be found here. A more thorough guide on how to update existing translations in practise is located in the ckanext-sixodp_ui extension's README-file.

Support / Contact / Contribution

Please file a new issue at GitHub.

Copying and License

This material is copyright by Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea, and is based on earlier work by Population Register Centre and Finnish State Treasury.

CKAN-related source code such as the CKAN extensions and patches are licensed under the AGPL v3.0. All other content in this repository is licensed under the MIT license.