On 19 April 2012 20:57, Heather Airoldi <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the instructions Dave. I followed your method on the Wiki, but > unfortunately it does not seem to be working for me. running the "couchdb -i > -a /tmp/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini" command after following the > instructions says that Apache CouchDB is running, but when I try to access > localhost:5985 it can't connect. Any idea what I did wrong? Here is my new > /tmp/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini file: > > ; CouchDB Configuration Settings > > ; Custom settings should be made in this file. They will override settings > ; in default.ini, but unlike changes made to default.ini, this file won't be > ; overwritten on server upgrade. > > [couchdb] > ;max_document_size = 4294967296 ; bytes > database_dir = /tmp/couchdb/var/lib/couchdb > view_index_dir = /tmp/couchdb/var/lib/couchdb > uri_file = /tmp/couchdb/var/run/couchdb/couch.uri > > [httpd] > port = 5985 > bind_address = 0.0.0.0 > ; Options for the MochiWeb HTTP server. > ;server_options = [{backlog, 128}, {acceptor_pool_size, 16}] > ; For more socket options, consult Erlang's module 'inet' man page. > ;socket_options = [{recbuf, 262144}, {sndbuf, 262144}, {nodelay, true}] > > ; Uncomment next line to trigger basic-auth popup on unauthorized requests. > ;WWW-Authenticate = Basic realm="administrator" > > ; Uncomment next line to set the configuration modification whitelist. Only > ; whitelisted values may be changed via the /_config URLs. To allow the admin > ; to change this value over HTTP, remember to include {httpd,config_whitelist} > ; itself. Excluding it from the list would require editing this file to update > ; the whitelist. > ;config_whitelist = [{httpd,config_whitelist}, {log,level}, {etc,etc}] > > [httpd_global_handlers] > ;_google = {couch_httpd_proxy, handle_proxy_req, <<"http://www.google.com";>>} > "/tmp/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini" 81L, 320 > > Thanks, > Heather > ________________________________________ > From: Dave Cottlehuber [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Running a dev instance of Couch > > On 19 April 2012 10:46, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: >> mkdir -p $NEW/var/{lib,etc,run}/couchdb/ >> [additional embarrassing errors omitted] > > Typically I flubbed the cut-n-paste, a corrected version is on the > wiki so that future foobars will not be recorded in mailing list > perpetuity for my eternal shame. > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Additional_Instances
Do you have the [log] section too? [log] file = /tmp/couchdb/var/log/couchdb/couch.log If you do IRC, pop on & ping me @dch if this isn't working still. A+ Dave
