On 15 March 2013 23:13, Torusoft <d...@torusoft.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > We've downloaded and run the couchdb 1.2.1 binary for Mac. > > After editing the bind_address field to the local IP of the server instead > of 127.0.0.1, couchdb fails to start up. > > We've removed the binary and downloaded a new one, but the same error > occurs. When we open the Apache CouchDB app, it displays an error saying > the couchdb server had a problem. > > Can you tell us how to remove whatever couchdb has installed so we can > start over with a new binary? > > Thanks for any help, > > > Chris >
Also you can check that beam.smp is allowed to accept incoming connections in the OSX firewall. I don't have 1.2.1 binary installed, but I'd guess somewhere like '~/Library/Application Support/CouchDB/' is a good guess. Note that your db files will also be here so don't go pruning willy-nilly. The actual bind_address will be stored in local.ini so you can always search for that (spotlight, or `find / -name local.ini`) and then edit it directly, 0.0.0.0 is a reasonable choice. The default values are pulled in from default.ini so you can simply remove the 'bind_address' line, or even the whole 'httpd' section (unless you have other customisation) and it will revert to the install-time defaults. A+ Dave
