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Add tips on managing Docker containers and increasing disk space under AWS
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* Activate the virtual environment that lets you run <code>paster</code> commands: <code>> . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate</code>
* Activate the virtual environment that lets you run <code>paster</code> commands: <code>> . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate</code>
=== Managing the Docker containers
```> cd docker-ckan
> docker ps
```
should return a list of running containers, which should include the following container names: "datapusher-plus", "ckan", "solr", and "redis".
Use
`> sudo docker-compose logs --tail=100 ckan`
to show the last 100 lines of the log for the `ckan` Docker instance.


=== Adding/changing departments of publishers ===
=== Adding/changing departments of publishers ===
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The extra tricky part about this one is that [https://github.com/WPRDC/ckanext-wprdctheme our GitHub repository that includes this JSON file] is installed in a different directory: <code>/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-wprdctheme/</code> but changes to the files in that directory (and subdirectories) do nothing.
The extra tricky part about this one is that [https://github.com/WPRDC/ckanext-wprdctheme our GitHub repository that includes this JSON file] is installed in a different directory: <code>/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-wprdctheme/</code> but changes to the files in that directory (and subdirectories) do nothing.
== Dealing with inadequate disk space ===
Once, we were seeing OSError: write error in the CKAN Docker logs and had to increase disk space to make CKAN function again.
Steve on increasing volume size on AWS:
> if you ever have to increase a volume, here’s what i followed to make the filesystem use the new space: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html
that server was a Xen instance


== Other changes ==
== Other changes ==

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