Lee, When you need to restart iptables (sooner the better!) I've found csf (http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html) to be a nice, quick way of configuring it, as you just open the conf file (/etc/csf/csf.conf) find the TCP_IN line, add the CouchDB port and restart (/etc/init.d/csf restart) and it takes care of loading and unloading the iptables chains.
Martin Technical Director Thenoi.se w: http://www.thenoi.se Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 at 15:44, Lee Burke wrote: > 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] (mailto:[email protected])> > To: [email protected] (mailto:[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 > >
