Setup & Configure HTTPD

In this section we are going to setup Apache HTTP to serve GeoNode.

Preliminary Steps & Checks

1. Be sure development (DEV) mode has been stopped

   If not already active let’s activate the new geonode Python Virtual Environment:

   $ workon geonode
   

   Move into the geonode home folder

   $ cd /home/geonode
   

   Move into the my_geonode custom project base folder

   $ cd my_geonode
   

   If paver start command is running you need to stop it

   $ paver stop
   

2. Restore site settings

   You need to restore initial customizations of the my_geonode local_settings. In order to do that, edit the my_geonode/local_settings.py file:

   $ vim my_geonode/local_settings.py
   

   Un-comment the following pieces

   ...
   SITEURL = 'http://localhost'
   ...
   GEOSERVER_LOCATION = os.getenv(
       'GEOSERVER_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
   )
   
   GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION = os.getenv(
       'GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
   )
   ...
   

Apache Configuration

Navigate to Apache configurations folder

$ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

And create a new configuration file for GeoNode:

$ sudo vim geonode.conf

Place the following content inside the file

WSGIDaemonProcess geonode python-path=/home/geonode/my_geonode:/home/geo/Envs/geonode/lib/python2.7/site-packages user=www-data threads=15 processes=2

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName http://localhost
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode

    LimitRequestFieldSize 32760
    LimitRequestLine 32760

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    WSGIProcessGroup geonode
    WSGIPassAuthorization On
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/wsgi.py

    Alias /static/ /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/static_root/
    Alias /uploaded/ /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/">
         <Files wsgi.py>
             Order deny,allow
             Allow from all
             Require all granted
         </Files>

        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/static_root/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/thumbs/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/avatars/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/people_group/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/group/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/documents/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/layers/">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Proxy *>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass /geoserver http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver
    ProxyPassReverse /geoserver http://127.0.0.1:8080/geoserver

</VirtualHost>

This sets up a VirtualHost in Apache HTTP server for GeoNode and a reverse proxy for GeoServer.

Note

In the case that GeoServer is running on a separate machine change the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse accordingly

Now load apache poxy module

$ sudo a2enmod proxy_http

And enable geonode configuration file

$ sudo a2ensite geonode

Postfix Configuration

Postfix is a service allowing the host to send e-mail and notificaions to the users. In order to make GeoNode being able to send e-mails you will need to enable the service.

$ sudo ufw disable
# This will be switch-off the

Edit the postfix configuration in order to allow the service act as a web service

$ sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

Check that at the end of the file the following properties are configured as follows

$ sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf

    ...
    recipient_delimiter = +
    inet_interfaces = all
    inet_protocols = all

Finally restart the postfix service

$ sudo service postfix restart

Finalize GeoNode Setup

Once the Apache2 Virtual Host has been correctly configured, we can finalize the GeoNode setup.

If not already active let’s activate the new geonode Python Virtual Environment:

$ workon geonode

Move into the geonode home folder

$ cd /home/geonode

Move into the my_geonode custom project base folder

$ cd my_geonode

First of all we need to tweak a bit the my_geonode local_settings. In order to do that, edit the my_geonode/local_settings.py file:

$ vim my_geonode/local_settings.py

Double check that exitsting properties match the following and add the missing ones

SITEURL = 'http://localhost'
...
# account registration settings
ACCOUNT_OPEN_SIGNUP = True
ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_EMAIL = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED = False

# notification settings
NOTIFICATION_ENABLED = False
NOTIFICATION_LANGUAGE_MODULE = "account.Account"

# Queue non-blocking notifications.
NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_ALL = False

# pinax.notifications
# or notification
NOTIFICATIONS_MODULE = 'pinax.notifications'

if NOTIFICATION_ENABLED:
    INSTALLED_APPS += (NOTIFICATIONS_MODULE, )

#Define email service on GeoNode
EMAIL_ENABLE = False

if EMAIL_ENABLE:
    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
    EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
    EMAIL_PORT = 25
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'My GeoNode <no-reply@geonode.org>'

# set to true to have multiple recipients in /message/create/
USER_MESSAGES_ALLOW_MULTIPLE_RECIPIENTS = True

INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + ('my_geonode',)
...
GEOSERVER_LOCATION = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
)

GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
)
...
CATALOGUE = {
    'default': {
        # The underlying CSW implementation
        # default is pycsw in local mode (tied directly to GeoNode Django DB)
        'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.pycsw_local',
        # pycsw in non-local mode
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.pycsw_http',
        # GeoNetwork opensource
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.geonetwork',
        # deegree and others
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.generic',

        # The FULLY QUALIFIED base url to the CSW instance for this GeoNode
        'URL': '%s/catalogue/csw' % SITEURL,
        # 'URL': 'http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/csw',
        # 'URL': 'http://localhost:8080/deegree-csw-demo-3.0.4/services',

        # login credentials (for GeoNetwork)
        'USER': 'admin',
        'PASSWORD': 'admin',
    }
}
...

In the end the my_geonode/local_settings.py should be something like this

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#########################################################################
#
# Copyright (C) 2012 OpenPlans
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
#########################################################################

# Django settings for the GeoNode project.
import os
from geonode.settings import *
#
# General Django development settings
#

# SECRET_KEY = '************************'

SITEURL = 'http://localhost'
SITENAME = 'my_geonode'

# Defines the directory that contains the settings file as the LOCAL_ROOT
# It is used for relative settings elsewhere.
LOCAL_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

MEDIA_ROOT = os.getenv('MEDIA_ROOT', os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, "uploaded"))

STATIC_ROOT = os.getenv('STATIC_ROOT',
                        os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, "static_root")
                        )

WSGI_APPLICATION = "my_geonode.wsgi.application"

# Load more settings from a file called local_settings.py if it exists
try:
    from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
    pass

# Additional directories which hold static files
STATICFILES_DIRS.append(
    os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, "static"),
)

# Location of url mappings
ROOT_URLCONF = 'my_geonode.urls'

# Location of locale files
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, 'locale'),
    ) + LOCALE_PATHS


# ######################################################################### #
# account registration settings
ACCOUNT_OPEN_SIGNUP = True
ACCOUNT_APPROVAL_REQUIRED = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_EMAIL = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED = False

# notification settings
NOTIFICATION_ENABLED = False
NOTIFICATION_LANGUAGE_MODULE = "account.Account"

# Queue non-blocking notifications.
NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_ALL = False

# pinax.notifications
# or notification
NOTIFICATIONS_MODULE = 'pinax.notifications'

if NOTIFICATION_ENABLED:
    INSTALLED_APPS += (NOTIFICATIONS_MODULE, )

#Define email service on GeoNode
EMAIL_ENABLE = False

if EMAIL_ENABLE:
    EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
    EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
    EMAIL_PORT = 25
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'My GeoNode <no-reply@geonode.org>'

# set to true to have multiple recipients in /message/create/
USER_MESSAGES_ALLOW_MULTIPLE_RECIPIENTS = True
# ######################################################################### #

INSTALLED_APPS = INSTALLED_APPS + ('my_geonode',)

TEMPLATES[0]['DIRS'].insert(0, os.path.join(LOCAL_ROOT, "templates"))

# ########################################################################## #
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost', '::1']
PROXY_ALLOWED_HOSTS = ("127.0.0.1", 'localhost', '::1')

POSTGIS_VERSION = (2, 0, 7)

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
         'NAME': 'geonode',
         'USER': 'geonode',
         'PASSWORD': 'geonode',
     },
    # vector datastore for uploads
    'datastore' : {
        'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis',
        #'ENGINE': '', # Empty ENGINE name disables
        'NAME': 'geonode_data',
        'USER' : 'geonode',
        'PASSWORD' : 'geonode',
        'HOST' : 'localhost',
        'PORT' : '5432',
    }
}

GEOSERVER_LOCATION = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
)

GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION', '{}/geoserver/'.format(SITEURL)
)

OGC_SERVER_DEFAULT_USER = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_ADMIN_USER', 'admin'
)

OGC_SERVER_DEFAULT_PASSWORD = os.getenv(
    'GEOSERVER_ADMIN_PASSWORD', 'geoserver'
)

# OGC (WMS/WFS/WCS) Server Settings
OGC_SERVER = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'geonode.geoserver',
        'LOCATION': GEOSERVER_LOCATION,
        'LOGIN_ENDPOINT': 'j_spring_oauth2_geonode_login',
        'LOGOUT_ENDPOINT': 'j_spring_oauth2_geonode_logout',
        # PUBLIC_LOCATION needs to be kept like this because in dev mode
        # the proxy won't work and the integration tests will fail
        # the entire block has to be overridden in the local_settings
        'PUBLIC_LOCATION': GEOSERVER_PUBLIC_LOCATION,
        'USER' : OGC_SERVER_DEFAULT_USER,
        'PASSWORD' : OGC_SERVER_DEFAULT_PASSWORD,
        'MAPFISH_PRINT_ENABLED' : True,
        'PRINT_NG_ENABLED' : True,
        'GEONODE_SECURITY_ENABLED' : True,
        'GEOGIG_ENABLED' : False,
        'WMST_ENABLED' : False,
        'BACKEND_WRITE_ENABLED': True,
        'WPS_ENABLED' : False,
        'LOG_FILE': '%s/geoserver/data/logs/geoserver.log' % os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, os.pardir)),
        # Set to dictionary identifier of database containing spatial data in DATABASES dictionary to enable
        'DATASTORE': 'datastore',
    }
}

CATALOGUE = {
    'default': {
        # The underlying CSW implementation
        # default is pycsw in local mode (tied directly to GeoNode Django DB)
        'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.pycsw_local',
        # pycsw in non-local mode
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.pycsw_http',
        # GeoNetwork opensource
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.geonetwork',
        # deegree and others
        # 'ENGINE': 'geonode.catalogue.backends.generic',

        # The FULLY QUALIFIED base url to the CSW instance for this GeoNode
        'URL': '%s/catalogue/csw' % SITEURL,
        # 'URL': 'http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/csw',
        # 'URL': 'http://localhost:8080/deegree-csw-demo-3.0.4/services',

        # login credentials (for GeoNetwork)
        'USER': 'admin',
        'PASSWORD': 'admin',
    }
}

ALT_OSM_BASEMAPS = os.environ.get('ALT_OSM_BASEMAPS', False)
CARTODB_BASEMAPS = os.environ.get('CARTODB_BASEMAPS', False)
STAMEN_BASEMAPS = os.environ.get('STAMEN_BASEMAPS', False)
THUNDERFOREST_BASEMAPS = os.environ.get('THUNDERFOREST_BASEMAPS', False)
MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ.get('MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN', None)
BING_API_KEY = os.environ.get('BING_API_KEY', None)

MAP_BASELAYERS = [{
    "source": {"ptype": "gxp_olsource"},
    "type": "OpenLayers.Layer",
    "args": ["No background"],
    "name": "background",
    "visibility": False,
    "fixed": True,
    "group":"background"
},
# {
#     "source": {"ptype": "gxp_olsource"},
#     "type": "OpenLayers.Layer.XYZ",
#     "title": "TEST TILE",
#     "args": ["TEST_TILE", "http://test_tiles/tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png"],
#     "name": "background",
#     "attribution": "&copy; TEST TILE",
#     "visibility": False,
#     "fixed": True,
#     "group":"background"
# },
{
    "source": {"ptype": "gxp_osmsource"},
    "type": "OpenLayers.Layer.OSM",
    "name": "mapnik",
    "visibility": True,
    "fixed": True,
    "group": "background"
}]

LOCAL_GEOSERVER = {
    "source": {
        "ptype": "gxp_wmscsource",
        "url": OGC_SERVER['default']['PUBLIC_LOCATION'] + "wms",
        "restUrl": "/gs/rest"
    }
}
baselayers = MAP_BASELAYERS
MAP_BASELAYERS = [LOCAL_GEOSERVER]
MAP_BASELAYERS.extend(baselayers)

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': True,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(module)s %(process)d '
                      '%(thread)d %(message)s'
        },
        'simple': {
            'format': '%(message)s',
        },
    },
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
            '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'null': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'class': 'django.utils.log.NullHandler',
        },
        'console': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'simple'
        },
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR', 'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler',
        }
    },
    "loggers": {
        "django": {
            "handlers": ["console"], "level": "ERROR", },
        "geonode": {
            "handlers": ["console"], "level": "DEBUG", },
        "gsconfig.catalog": {
            "handlers": ["console"], "level": "DEBUG", },
        "owslib": {
            "handlers": ["console"], "level": "DEBUG", },
        "pycsw": {
            "handlers": ["console"], "level": "ERROR", },
        },
    }
# ########################################################################## #

Finalize HTTPD Setup

Warning

Those steps must be completed from folder /home/geonode/my_geonode and inside geonode Python Virtual Environment.

Dowload GeoNode data to be served by Apache. You will be prompted for confirmation

$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py collectstatic

Add thumbs and layers folders

$ sudo mkdir -p /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/thumbs
$ sudo mkdir -p /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/layers

Change permissions on GeoNode files and folders to allow Apache to read and edit them

$ sudo chown -Rf geonode /home/geonode/my_geonode/
$ sudo chown -Rf geonode:www-data /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/static/
$ sudo chown -Rf geonode:www-data /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/
$ chmod -Rf 777 /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/thumbs
$ chmod -Rf 777 /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/uploaded/layers
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/geonode/my_geonode/my_geonode/static_root/

Finally restart Apache to load the new configuration:

$ sudo service apache2 restart