Re: CouchDB Web Server access on a LAN.

2010-11-17 Thread Cliff Williams
Neville, Glad you are up and running. It does not look as if hostname will work. I tried it on my test couchdb instance. using 0.0.0.0 will make it bind to available IP addresses which may, or may not be suitable. best regards cliff PS You can also access the configuration page from the

Re: CouchDB Web Server access on a LAN.

2010-11-17 Thread Neville Franks
Hi Cliff, Thanks for that. Pity I wasn't able to find this for myself. :) I tried adding the PC's Hostname and Erlang wasn't happy. I noticed the Werl window mentioned etc/local.ini so I opened that and changed the Hostname to the IP address and it works as I wanted. Do you know if a Hostname sho

Re: CouchDB Web Server access on a LAN.

2010-11-17 Thread Cliff Williams
Neville, Good Morning. initially go to http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/config.html change the bind address (about half way down), restart couchdb, and you should be good to go best regards cliff On 17/11/10 08:02, Neville Franks wrote: I'm trying to access CouchDB on a PC on my LAN using its

CouchDB Web Server access on a LAN.

2010-11-17 Thread Neville Franks
I'm trying to access CouchDB on a PC on my LAN using its IP address ie. 192.168.1.2:5984 and failing. I can access it on the other PC using localhost but using the PC's IP address on the same PC also fails. I can ping the other PC ok. I also tried using the PC's Host Name and that failed. I've tri