Ara issues in python

Question:

I am facing this issue when I try to enter an ara command:

user@server:~ ara playbook list
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py:58: UserWarning: No directory at: /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/
  mw_instance = middleware(adapted_handler)

I am running this in Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS.

user@server:~$ which python3
/usr/bin/python3
user@server:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.10
user@server:~$ pip list | grep ara
ara                    1.6.1
user@server:~$ pip list | grep django
django-cors-headers    4.1.0
django-filter          23.2
django-health-check    3.17.0
djangorestframework    3.14.0

Any ideas how to solve this?

Asked By: H.N.

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Answers:

The error message is stating that there’s no directory at /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/. This suggests that the Ara server is looking for static resources at that location, but it can’t find them. This could be due to the directory not existing, or Ara not being configured correctly to find its static files.

Ara is a tool for visualizing and managing Ansible runs, and it has a server component that serves a web interface. The server component uses Django, a Python web framework, which in turn uses a system of static files for things like CSS, JavaScript, and images. When Django runs, it needs to know where these static files are located. The warning message is indicating that Django is looking for static files in the directory /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/, but it’s not finding anything there.

Here’s a potential solution you can try:

  1. Check if the directory /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/ exists. You can do this by running the command ls /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/ in your terminal. If the directory doesn’t exist, you will get a "No such file or directory" error.

  2. If the directory doesn’t exist, you need to create it. Run the command mkdir -p /home/user/.ara/server/www/static/. The -p option will create any necessary parent directories.

  3. If the directory does exist, it’s possible that Ara is not configured correctly to find its static files. According to the Ara documentation, you can specify the location of the static files with the ARA_STATIC_ROOT environment variable. Try setting this variable to the location where your static files are actually stored. For example, if your static files are in /path/to/static/files/, you would run export ARA_STATIC_ROOT=/path/to/static/files/.

  4. After doing one of the above steps, try running the Ara command again.

Please replace /home/user/ with the actual path if it is different in your case.

Answered By: 70ny
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