Here is what I followed on Ubuntu, must work on Debian too. At least
check the chown ans chmod section:
# via http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu [3]
sudo apt-get install --yes build-essential curl git
sudo apt-get install --yes python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo apt-get install -y erlang-dev erlang-manpages erlang-base-hipe
erlang-eunit erlang-nox erlang-xmerl erlang-inets
sudo apt-get install -y libmozjs185-dev libicu-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
libtool
# via http://ftp.fau.de/apache/couchdb/source/1.6.1 [4]/
cd /tmp
wget
http://ftp.fau.de/apache/couchdb/source/1.6.1/apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
[5]
tar xvzf apache-couchdb-*
cd apache-couchdb-*
./configure && make
sudo make install
useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb couchdb
chown -R couchdb: /var/lib/couchdb /var/log/couchdb
# vi /etc/passwd here and change home directory to
/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb/
chown -R couchdb: /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb
/usr/local/etc/couchdb
chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb/
chmod 664 /usr/local/etc/couchdb/*.ini
chmod 775 /usr/local/etc/couchdb/*.d
cd /etc/init.d
ln -s /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb couchdb
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
update-rc.d couchdb defaults
curl http://127.0.0.1:5984 [6]/
# vi /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini
# change bind_adress to 0.0.0.0
service couchdb restart
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Regards,
Kiril Stankov,
OpenNet Software ltd.
-------------------------
FROM: "Dr. Johannes Zellner" <[email protected]>
SENT: 21 January 2015 00:01:59 EET
TO: [email protected]
SUBJECT: can't run couchdb run as couchdb user / only root works
Hi,
I installed couchdb 1.6.1 on *debian 8.0, armv7l* mostly according to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Debian [1]
http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/install/unix.html [2]
*unfortunately it runs only as root, not as couchdb user although **I
followed the instructions for ownership and permissions*, especially:
|sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb
/usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb
|
|sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb
/usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb|
|sudo chmod -R g+rw /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb
/usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb|
--> *all couchdb directories and their content under /usr/local are
owned by couchdb.couchdb*.
When starting couchdb as couchdb
user I get:
couchdb@localhost:~$ couchdb
Apache CouchDB 1.6.1 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Failure to start Mochiweb: eacces
[error] [<0.101.0>] {error_report,<0.30.0>,
{<0.101.0>,crash_report,
[[{initial_call,
{mochiweb_socket_server,init,['Argument__1']}},
{pid,<0.101.0>},
{registered_name,[]},
{error_info,
{exit,eacces,
[{gen_server,init_it,6,
[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,322}]},
{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,
[{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,237}]}]}},
{ancestors,
[couch_secondary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.31.0>]},
{messages,[]},
{links,[<0.90.0>]},
{dictionary,[]},
{trap_exit,true},
{status,running},
{heap_size,987},
{stack_size,27},
{reductions,455}],
[]]}}
{"init terminating in
do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_app,start,[normal,["/usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,couch_secondary_services,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,httpd,eacces}}}}}},[{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,[{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,98}]},{application_master,start_it_old,4,[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,272}]}]}}}}}},[{couch,start,0,[{file,"couch.erl"},{line,18}]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}
Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating
in do_boot ()
*Any ideas what's going wrong?*
