What's the IP you listed for the bind_address? Did you perhaps specify something like 192.168.10.1? If so that means CouchDB isn't listening on 127.0.0.1.
To check if the port is open, try: $ netstat -tap tcp | grep 5984 HTH, Paul Davis On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Andreas Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have some trouble getting CouchDB to start. > > I have a local Ubuntu (Linux duke 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug > 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux) and CouchDB trunk (rev 821585). As > usual, I followed the advice in the README (adduser, chmod, chown). Now > starting CouchDB: > > $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b > Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax. > > $ ps -ef > couchdb 9203 1 0 21:21 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e > /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini -a / > couchdb 9212 9203 0 21:21 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e > /usr/local/bin/couchdb -a /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini -a / > couchdb 9213 9212 4 21:21 pts/1 00:00:00 > /usr/local/lib/erlang/erts-5.7.3/bin/beam -Bd -K true -- -root /usr/local/li > couchdb 9218 9213 0 21:21 ? 00:00:00 heart -pid 9213 -ht 11 > > but: > > $ curl http://127.0.0.1:5984 > curl: (7) couldn't connect to host > > and > > $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -d > Apache CouchDB is not running. > > Any idea what's going wrong? I did the same in the office on a VM Debian > Lenny without having any problems. > > Thanks a lot in advance > > Cheers > > Andy Wenk > > > >
