Page View Tracker cron Task

[Natasha Fee]

Automating the page tracker updates was attempted on @datatest, but doesn't seem to work. Another attempt on @ data is warranted.

As it is, the page tracker functionality (including the index of most popular datasets) won't update unless you follow the instructions here: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.9/maintaining/tracking.html

[Emiline CSA]

I started to look at this issue. First of all, the page view tracker is already enable on production,:/etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini.

ckan.tracking_enabled = true

Then we need to set up the cron task by following step 2.

[Emiline CSA]

I set up the cron task on my virtual machine successfully.

crontab needs the following:

* * * * *   /usr/bin/env > /home/efadmin/tmp/cron.log
@daily ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini tracking update  && ckan -c /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini search-index rebuild -r

Then I can use the ckan-cron command to list the execution history. The next step is to set up the cron task on the QA server.

[Emiline CSA]

I configured the cron task on the production server today. It works good as I can see in the log file.