On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Walter Torres <otrwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I installed "erlsrv.exe" as a SERVICE, windows created the > SERVICE REG KEYS. It appears in the SERVICES control and it allows me > to attempt to start it. > Did *you* create the service, or did you copy and paste the code the installer uses? I think this may be the issue if the former. erlsrv.exe is used to start/stop/install/remove Erlang services from what I can tell. You wouldn't want to add it yourself as a service to start; you'd want to use it in cmd.exe to add a service and then start whatever it put in there. Here's the config file for the installer (which I think is InnoSetup): https://github.com/dch/couchdb/blob/trunk/etc/windows/couchdb.iss.tpl You should have installed the service by running erlsrv.exe with these parameters (I filled in the variables from the ISS file, so change as needed): add "CouchDB" -workdir "X:\CouchDB\bin" -onfail restart_always -args "-sasl errlog_type error -s couch +A 4 +W w" -comment "CouchDB 1.x.x" Then you can either net start CouchDB, or the installer does erlsrv.exe start "CouchDB". I checked out the source for the Windows fork and grepped it for both "hkey" and "hk", and nothing Windows-specific came out. I don't think that CouchDB is your problem here. I think it's that Erlang is refusing to start because it is not installed properly (and it may well depend on some sort of registry entries). There might be a standalone version of Erlang that you can extract to a folder and use, and then once that worked, you could use that to install CouchDB as a service and run it. It sounds to me like you're trying to make a version of CouchDB that is batch file installable and survives a nuke and pave. But that's a guess; you could be hooking up CouchDB to a missile defense system. In any event, help us help you - try to explain why you can't use the installer in silent mode and why you can't use registry entries. P.S. In Windows, when you remove a service, you'll have to reboot to fully be rid of its security descriptors and whatnot. Definitely don't try removing/adding the service without restarting or you may be compounding the problem by having incorrect SDs.
