Check what's in /etc/couchdb/default.ini to see if its pointing at a funny directory. Also, when you installed, did you make sure and change install paths? Or did your new ini get installed to /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini?
HTH, Paul Davis On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Dan Himes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Paul. > > /etc/init.d/couchdb stop > attempted to reload futon, but reload failed so couchdb was stopped > > I did command you indicated with "cp" instead of "mv" (and didn't > delete) > > /etc/init.d/couchdb start > > reload futon successful, but futon is still pointing to /0.10.0/ > directory. > > Tried to "configure," but says I'm not a server admin. I am, but now > need to see how to tell futon. I didn't run into this before, but maybe > I just didn't get that far. I had set myself up in couchdb 0.10.0 as a > db admin, but not a server admin. Old dbadmin credentials don't appear > to be recognized as login is hanging. > > On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:58 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> Most odd. >> >> Sounds like a config changed from the previous version. Ie, the db >> path went from: >> >> /path/to/dbs/0.10.0/ >> >> to >> >> /path/to/dbs/ >> >> Which isn't out of this world unbelievable. To fix it, just do: >> >> sudo mv /path/to/dbs/0.10.0/* /path/to/dbs/ && rmdir /path/to/dbs/0.10.0/ >> >> Make sure couchdb is stopped when you do that to avoid other funny errors. >> >> Also, make sure to have a backup if you're not comfortable moving >> datafiles around on the command line. >> >> Paul >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Dan Himes <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm brand new, but I couldn't find a reference to this problem. I had >> > the ubuntu package couchdb 0.10 installed, but recently moved to 1.0.1 >> > by installing from source following the guide here: >> > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu). However, futon >> > now shows the database as 0.10.0/dbname (for example, >> > 0.10.0/hello-world), and when I click on it I get the error: >> > >> > +++ >> > Error: illegal_database_name >> > >> > Only lowercase characters (a-z), digits (0-9), and any of the characters >> > _, $, (, ), +, -, and / are allowed. Must begin with a letter. >> > +++ >> > >> > I understand what the error means, but not how to move past it. Thank >> > you for your help! >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Dan >> > > > > > Daniel E. Himes, Ph.D. > President > Virtual Learning Environment Solutions, Inc. > 4 Bartlett St ~ Marblehead Massachusetts ~ 01945-2720 > 781.277.1151 >
