Hey Maxwell,
Should be a simple fix. You've got "_user" in the URL, and it should be
"_users"
Hope that does the trick.
Later,
Benjamin
On 1/22/11 4:45 AM, 137maxwell wrote:
Hi all,
I'm new with couchDB and trying to setup an example from the german book
"CouchDB - kurz&gut".
I just created a test app with "couchapp generate todoapp" and pushed it to
the DB and everything works fine.
Now the book says to add a user by the command:
"curl -vX POST http://admin:secret@localhost:5984/_user -d
'username=bob&password=kelso&roles=user'
The admin exists, the password is set up, but doing this I get the the error
msg:
{"error":"illegal_database_name","reason":"Only lowercase characters (a-z),
digits (0-9), and any of the characters _, $, (, ), +, -, and / are allowed.
Must begin with a letter."}
I search for any solutions but wasn't successive. I am aware of the fact,
that a database must not begin with a "_", but in this situation I
understand the "_user" not as a database but as a part of the API.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot,
maxwell
