Setting up geonode

Fast install text from GeoNode.org Quickstart:

Install from PPA in Ubuntu 12.04 -> see http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/intro/install.html
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geonode/release . Note, if add-apt does not work (command not found) then do first sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install geonode (before I could run this I had do to do sudo apt-get install libtomcat7-java so that Tomcat6 will be removed and then I could install tomcat7 - which was needed to for GeoServer - used by GeoNode)
Set the IP address and create a superuser (also described here: http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/deploy/production.html)
- sudo geonode-updateip 127.0.0.1 (Use the real IP if you have one)
- geonode createsuperuser.
- set GeoServer ProxyURL as described in the geonode install instructions. Use user admin with geoserver.
- If starting up Apache results in the following message: "Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName.", Then do this
Import data

Read the admin docs and also OSGeo Live DVD Quickstart tutorial

Notes on installing PostGIS

To check if postgres exists, use which psql which should return the path. Then with the path I did /usr/bin/psql --version

to retrieve the version installed.

So, Postgres 9.1 was installed, but when I executed "psql" I got this: psql: FATAL: role "ssteinig" does not exist
Hence, I first had to creating my account as a user using sudo -u postgres createuser -s $USER (got this from here).
Now I could create a db using createdb mygeodb, and connect via commandline with psql -d mygeodb
Finally I spatially enabled the db with CREATE EXTENSION postgis; and CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;
- However, for CREATE EXTENSION postgis; I got the following error: "ERROR: could not open extension control file "/usr/share/postgresql/9.1/extension/postgis.control": No such file or directory".
- This may be solved using the install instructions from here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt
- However, I followed now what is written here: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21UbuntuPGSQL93Apt
- the stuff described below did not work either, I think:
  - echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgis.list
  - sudo apt-get update
  - sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 pgadmin3
  - and then...., I got again an error: update-alternatives: error: alternative pg_basebackup.1.gz can't be slave of psql.1.gz: it is a slave of postmaster.1.gz, which send me to this page: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130508192711.GA9243@msgid.df7cb.de
then add a Postgres/postgis port forwarding rule for port 5432