On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Steve Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working my way through the online version of the O'Reilly book > "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" by Anderson, Lehnardt and Slater. > > I am on Chapter 3 "Getting Started". I've downloaded and started CouchDBX, > but am getting errors, or at least different responses, when I run the first > few commands in chapter 3. > > For example: > > silverlight:~ stevea$ curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/ > {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0"} > > silverlight:~ stevea$ curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/_all_dbs_ > {"error":"error","reason":"illegal_database_name"}
this should be: curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/_all_dbs hopefully that will help. > > silverlight:~ stevea$ curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/baseball > curl: (52) Empty reply from server > this should respond with {"ok":true} if it isn't than maybe there's a problem with your CouchDB. Have you tried running the test suite from Firefox? It is available at http://127.0.0.0:5984/_utils/couch_tests.html > Any ideas? > > Thanks > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
