After you have completed installation (from either package or source), follow this section for instructions on setting up an initial user, loading test data, and notes on deploying CKAN.
By default, CKAN has a set of locked-down permissions. To begin working with it you need to set up a user and some permissions.
First create an admin account from the command line (you must be root, sudo -s):
paster --plugin=ckan user add admin --config=/etc/ckan/std/std.ini
When prompted, enter a password - this is the password you will use to log in to CKAN. In the resulting output, note that you will also get assigned a CKAN API key.
Note
This command is your first introduction to some important CKAN concepts. paster is the script used to run CKAN commands. std.ini is the CKAN config file. You can change options in this file to configure CKAN.
For exploratory purposes, you might was well make the admin user a
sysadmin. You obviously wouldn't give most users these rights as they would
then be able to do anything. You can make the admin user a sysadmin like
this:
paster --plugin=ckan sysadmin add admin --config=/etc/ckan/std/std.ini
You can now login to the CKAN frontend with the username admin and the password you set up.
It can be handy to have some test data to start with. You can get test data like this:
paster --plugin=ckan create-test-data --config=/etc/ckan/std/std.ini
You now have a CKAN instance that you can log in to, with some test data to check everything works.
You may want to deploy your CKAN instance at this point, to share with others.
If you have installed CKAN from packages, then Apache and WSGI deployment scripts are already configured for you in standard locations.
If you have installed CKAN from source, then the standard production deployment of CKAN is Apache and WSGI, which you will need to configure yourself. For more information, see :doc:`deployment`.