Once you've finished :doc:`installing CKAN <installing/index>`, this section will walk you through getting started with your new CKAN website, including creating a CKAN sysadmin user, some test data, and the basics of configuring your CKAN site.
You have to use CKAN's command line interface to create your first sysadmin user, and it can also be useful to create some test data from the command line. For full documentation of CKAN's command line interface (including troubleshooting) see :doc:`paster`.
Note
CKAN commands are executed using the paster
command on the server that
CKAN is installed on. Before running the paster commands below, you need to
make sure that your virtualenv is activated and that you're in your ckan
source directory. For example:
|activate| cd |virtualenv|/src/ckan
You have to create your first CKAN sysadmin user from the command line. For
example, to create a user called seanh
and make him a sysadmin:
paster sysadmin add seanh -c |production.ini|
If a user called seanh
already exists he will be promoted to a sysadmin. If
the user account doesn't exist yet you'll be prompted to enter a password and
the account will be created.
For a list of other command line commands for managing sysadmins, run:
paster sysadmin --help
Read the :doc:`/sysadmin-guide` to learn what you can do as a CKAN sysadmin.
It can be handy to have some test data to start with, to quickly check that
everything works. You can add a standard set of test data to your site from the
command line with the create-test-data
command:
paster create-test-data -c |production.ini|
If you later want to delete this test data and start again with an empty database, you can use the :ref:`db clean <db clean>` command.
For a list of other command line commands for creating tests data, run:
paster create-test-data --help
All of the options that can be set in the admin page and many more can be set
by editing CKAN's config file. By default, the config file is located at
|development.ini| for development sites or |production.ini| for production
sites. The config file can be edited in any text editor. For example, to change
the title of your site you would find the ckan.site_title
line in your
config file and edit it:
ckan.site_title = Masaq Data Hub
Make sure the line is not commented-out (lines in the config file that begin
with #
are considered comments, so if there's a #
at the start of a
line you've edited, delete it), save the file, and then restart your web server
for the changes to take effect. For example, if using Apache on Ubuntu:
|reload_apache|
For full documentation of CKAN's config file and all the options you can set, see :doc:`configuration`.
Note
If the same option is set in both the config file and in the admin page, the admin page setting takes precedence. You can use the Reset button on the admin page to clear your settings, and allow settings from the config file to take effect.