Hi Luca,
I ran into failing uploads after setting up RC1 as well; the problem for me
was the one described in http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/ticket/838 . A
patch that resolved it for me is under discussion at
http://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/10 . If you would like to try out
that code for yourself and don't know how to use it in your deployment,
please contact us in IRC (the #geonode channel on irc.freenode.net). I also
hope to produce an RC2 this week which includes a fix for this issue.
Anyway, about troubleshooting:
I should write a page in the docs about this, but there are several places
error messages may appear in GeoNode:
1. Tomcat's error log (*tomcat/logs/catalina.out*)
2. GeoServer's error log (*geoserver_data/logs/geoserver.log*)
3. Django's error reporting system. Django may report errors in one of
two ways (built-in):
1. You set *DEBUG=True* in *local_settings.py* and re-attempt the
action that failed. A detailed log with information for programmers will
show up in your browser for failed requests.
2. You configure your Django application to send email, and add a list
of admins to local_settings.py. This would simply involve adding a line
like: [ADMINS=("Luca", "[email protected]"),]and then setting up email.
See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/ or
http://rob.cogit8.org/blog/2008/Aug/31/using-gmails-smtp-server-django/for
some info on that. Error messages will be sent to the users listed in
the ADMINS setting, which has to be a tuple of tuples (the extra comma at
the end is important.)
Unfortunately, the upload view is a little overzealous in hiding errors and
presenting obscured/simplified messages to the user instead, so none of
these logging systems presented much useful information (I found the cause
of the problem by removing a lot of the error wrapping code manually). A
nice improvement would be to have it log the real error using the usual
Django mechanisms while still presenting a human-readable error instead of a
stack-trace.
--
David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Luca Casagrande
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I installed GeoNode RC1 following the awesome guide on Github [1] and
> all is fine.
> I am planning to use it for the Italian GFOSS.it Association.
> Just some small notices on it, to be sure that it can be followed also
> by new people:
> - Tell people to become root or use sudo on most command;
> - The Geoserver interface doesn't work as written in point 2 of "Changes
> after Tomcat is Running";
> - Type exit once created the db;
> - unzip GeoNode-1.0-RC1/geonode-client/ -d /var/www/geonode/htdocs/
> should be unzip GeoNode-1.0-RC1/geonode-client.zip -d
> /var/www/geonode/htdocs/
> - in the end point people to http://localhost/
>
> The only problem I have with my installation is that I can't upload any
> ShapFile (it says to contact the admin and highlight in red the layer
> name).
> How can I debug this troubles? Apache/Geoserver/Geonetowork logs doesn't
> show any troubles.
>
> Thank you for your great work
> Luca
>
> [1]:
>
> http://github.com/dwins/geonode/blob/issue_822_deployment_docs/docs/source/deploy/ubuntu.rst
>
>
>
