GeoNode Basic Install

This is the most basic installation of GeoNode. It won’t use any external server like Apache Tomcat, PostgreSQL or HTTPD.

First of all we need to prepare a new Python Virtual Environment

Since geonode needs a large number of different python libraries and packages, its recommended to use a python virtual environment to avoid conflicts on dependencies with system wide python packages and other installed software. See also documentation of Virtualenvwrapper package for more information

Note

The GeoNode Virtual Environment must be created only the first time. You won’t need to create it again everytime.

which python3.8  # copy the path of python executable

# Create the GeoNode Virtual Environment (first time only)
export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs
source /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh
mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.8 geonode  # Use the python path from above

# Alterantively you can also create the virtual env like below
mkdir -p ~/.virtualenvs
python3.8 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/geonode
source ~/.virtualenvs/geonode/bin/activate

At this point your command prompt shows a (geonode) prefix, this indicates that your virtualenv is active.

Note

The next time you need to access the Virtual Environment just run

source /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh
workon geonode

# Alterantively you can also create the virtual env like below
source ~/.virtualenvs/geonode/bin/activate

Note

In order to save permanently the virtualenvwrapper environment

vim ~/.bashrc

# Write to the bottom of the file the following lines
export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs
source /usr/share/virtualenvwrapper/virtualenvwrapper.sh

# Let's create the GeoNode core base folder and clone it
sudo mkdir -p /opt/geonode/; sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER; sudo chown -Rf $USER:www-data /opt/geonode/; sudo chmod -Rf 775 /opt/geonode/

# Clone the GeoNode source code on /opt/geonode
cd /opt; git clone https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode.git -b 3.3.x geonode

# Install the Python packages
cd /opt/geonode
pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade --no-cache --no-cache-dir
pip install -e . --upgrade
pip install pygdal=="`gdal-config --version`.*"

Initializae GeoNode

workon geonode
cd /opt/geonode

# Initialize GeoNode
chmod +x *.sh
./paver_local.sh reset
./paver_local.sh setup
./paver_local.sh sync
./manage_local.sh collectstatic --noinput
sudo chmod -Rf 777 geonode/static_root/ geonode/uploaded/