Martin, You hit it right on, it was iptables. I didn't realize CentOS had iptables running by default. For any others with this issue, I ran these commands: service iptables stop service ip6tables stop.
Now that I can access futon, I'll start seeing how this software works. Thanks. Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Hewitt" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 4:34:54 PM Subject: Re: trouble accessing futon In my experience, that sounds like one of two things: 1. bind_address in local.ini/default.ini being set to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 2. iptables or similar blocking inbound connections If you've discounted [2], have you tried [1]? Martin On Monday, 9 July 2012 at 23:52, Lee Burke wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to couchdb and have my first installation on CentOS 6 and couchdb > 1.0.3, installed using yum. > Using my Win7 PC and Firefox, I try to access http://hostname:5984/ or > http://hostname:5984/_utils. Neither will respond, Firefox times out with > this message: The connection has timed out. The server at hostname is taking > too long to respond. > On the server, I can run curl http://hostname:5984 and get the > "couchdb":"Welcome" response and also curl -X GET > http://hostname:5984/_all_dbs and get the "_users" response. > On my PC, I've disabled the firewall, but still no luck. > > Any suggestions? > Thanks. > > Lee -- Lee Burke ASEG Inc. System Administrator 858-550-0500 x-320
