Hello,
I've used the 1.8.1 Windows installer and successfully installed Cartoview.
One entry I changed in the settings.py file.

• SITEURL port 4040 (Default was 8000)

Also changed Tomcat port to 8080 (Default was 4041). If I hadn't made these changes, geoserver could not be reached by python manage.py updatelayers prompting me with

[Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

After fixing this while trying to importlayers I was prompted by

Exception: ('Failed to process BBMP_Wards_GSL_UTM_43N_160318', AttributeError("'FeatureType' object has no attribute 'srid'",))

Which I had to edit the helpers.py file at line 614. Change to srid.projection

Again prompted by

Exception: ('Failed to process BBMP_Wards_GSL_UTM_43N_160318', AttributeError("'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'",))

For which I had to specify options such as -n , -t etc , trying to import layers again,

geonode.people.models.DoesNotExist: Profile matching query does not exist.

Which simple enough I provided the superuser option as follows:

python manage.py importlayers -n test -t test -a test -u superadmin path_to_file

This successfully imported my shapefile

Finished processing 1 layers in 7.0 seconds.

1 Created layers
0 Updated layers
0 Skipped layers
0 Failed layers
7.000000 seconds per layer

Now to run python manage.py updatelayers to reflect in Cartoview/Geonode, which prompted me with this:

Finished processing 1 layers in 15.0 seconds.

0 Created layers
1 Updated layers
0 Failed layers
15.000000 seconds per layer
PS E:\Cartoview\geonode> python manage.py updatelayers
Inspecting the available layers in GeoServer ...
Found 1 layers, starting processing
[updated] Layer test (1/1)

All seems well but the changes still isn't reflected on Cartoview/Geonode. Store and layer is present in Geoserver.

• Cartoview Version : 1.8.1
• Geonode Version : Default version with Windows installer

Edit: Just wanted to add that I would like to upload large rasters onto Cartoview/Geonode which is quite slow (uploading time) via the UI. Using Geoserver/console to upload large files would be quite useful. Thus, this was just a test to see if I can upload a file via Geoserver/console commands so later I could possibly automate this.