On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Maclin Kallat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Couchdb 1.0.1 from source > > wget > http://mirrors.enquira.co.uk/apache//couchdb/1.0.1/apache-couchdb-1.0.1.tar.gz > wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz > > I also have the Erlang 5.8.1 installed. > > I can start Couchdb properly but am unable to check it using curl: > > Here are the commands: > > sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b > Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax. > curl localhost:5984 > curl: (7) couldn't connect to host > > What could be possibly going wrong? > How can I diagnose this or check errors somewhere about whats missing? > > Any help will be extremely appreciated. > > Maclin > >
Its probably a permissions error. Check the INSTALL.Unix for a list of directories that CouchDB needs to have write access to.
