On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, patrick flaherty<[email protected]> wrote: > > thanx Paul, that's very helpful. > > Unfortunately futon is not quite as helpful: the lower right tells me > version 0.0.0. Where else can I find the version number > of my current CouchDB? (I'm of course looking around elsewhere already). >
The only thing I can suggest would be to look through the install directory for the README or something that might specify the version. The definitive place to check is acinclude.m4 but I haven't the slightest what may or may be included by a Windows installer. > Don't mind trying to build CouchDB for myself. Have an up-to-date cygwin > kit (and visual studio, etc) and have recently built > both openssl and firefox on my XP SP2 machine so I don't feel too > uncomfortable with building open source projects on windows. > As for build instructions I'd check the dev list for messages from Mark Hammond. > pat > > > > Paul Davis wrote: >> >> Patrick, >> >> My first guess is that those Windows binaries are for CouchDB 0.8.x >> and the tutorial you're following is referring to 0.9.x features. >> Futon should tell you what version you're running in the bottom right >> corner. The _show stuff is definitely 0.9.x only. If they are old >> binaries, there's been quite a bit of work recently on getting a 0.9.x >> installer going. I know there's a URL for build instructions on >> windows around here somewhere but I'm not sure if they finished up a >> full installer quite yet. >> >> HTH, >> Paul Davis >> >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, patrick flaherty<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I do a good deal of database programming - very little web programming. >>> Am >>> interested in CouchDB's database capabilities (as opposed to its >>> web interface which is what's perhaps hanging me up at the moment). >>> >>> After I'd figured out a thing or two, successfully did the windows >>> install >>> from here: >>> >>> http://www.brunomlopes.com/software/couch-db-binaries >>> >>> (thanx to whoever created it - it works well). >>> >>> So I can go to futon and create databases, documents, etc. >>> >>> Then tried this 15-minute tutorial: >>> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchIn15Minutes >>> >>> It seems to have worked up till #6. #6 is where you query from >>> _design/render over to the ID of the document you created previously >>> trying >>> to invoke the 'greetings' property. In my case that would be: >>> >>> >>> http://localhost:5984/example/_design/render/_show/salute/25cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007 >>> >>> This fails with, as best I've been able to format it, the trace that >>> follows: >>> >>> {"error":"EXIT":"reason":"{function_clause, >>> [{couch_httpd,handle_db_request, >>> [{mochiweb_request,#Port<0.2357>,'GET', >>> >>> \"\/example\/_design\/render\/%2225cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007%22\", >>> {1,1}, >>> {9, >>> {\"host\", >>> {'Host',\"localhost:5984\"}, >>> {\"accept\", >>> {'Accept', >>> >>> >>> \"text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8\"}, >>> nil, >>> {\"accept-language\", >>> {'Accept-Language',\"en-us,en;q=0.5\"}, >>> {\"accept-encoding\", >>> {'Accept-Encoding',\"gzip,deflate\"}, >>> {\"accept-charset\", >>> {'Accept-Charset',\"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\"}, >>> nil,nil}, >>> nil}, >>> {\"connection\",{'Connection',\"keep-alive\"},nil,nil}}}, >>> {\"user-agent\", >>> {'User-Agent', >>> \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; >>> rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko\/20090708 Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; >>> en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko\/20090407 Minefield\/3.6a1pre >>> AutoPager\/0.5.2.2 >>> (http:\/\/www.teesoft.info\/)\"}, >>> {\"keep-alive\",{'Keep-Alive',\"115\"},nil,nil}, >>> {\"x-autopager\", >>> {\"X-Autopager\",\"0.5.2.2 >>> (http:\/\/www.teesoft.info\/)\"}, >>> nil,nil}}}}}, >>> 'GET', >>> {\"example\",<0.71.0>, >>> >>> [\"_design\",\"render\",\"%2225cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007%22\"]}]}, >>> {couch_httpd,handle_request,2}, >>> {mochiweb_http,headers,4}, >>> {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}"} >>> >>> The function would appear to be mal-formed and while I've tried all kinds >>> of >>> possibilities for rewriting it, I continue to get the above trace. >>> >>> I don't think the problem is browser dependent but tried two version of >>> FF >>> as well as IE 7. And no go. (one version, above, has AutoPager - the >>> other version does not). >>> >>> Hope someone has some idea of what I might be doing wrong. >>> >>> pat >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
