Hi experts I've installed a droplet at digitaloceans.com using ubuntu 13.10, because it is easy to install couchdb 1.4 on it as it's included in the software repository.
So I ran "sudo apt-get install couchdb -y" and as far as I remember there were no errors. But when I run "sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb" I get the error mentioned here: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Error_messages#Unavailable_Port. The page says: "Edit your /etc/couchdb/couch.ini file and change the Port setting to an available port" When I run "nmap -v www.arteigenschaften.ch" I get only one open port: 22/tcp (service: ssh) and 999 closed ports. I'm a bit surprised that port 90 isn't open. But maybe that is because nobody is listening yet? If I understand correctly the fact that port 5984 isn't open also means that no one is listening. But then why should I change to an available port when the problem is not the port but the listener? Would "not available" mean that someone else is already listening? But then the fact that port 5984 is not "open" would mean that the problem isn't in the port but somewhere else. "ufw status" > "inactive". So no firewall blocking (not sure if this would be relevant for connecting to localhost) "sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5984 -j ACCEPT" didn't help I guess now is the time to mention that I'm a linux and ip noob. Surely there's something glaringly obvious that I'm unaware of? In case it's any help: www.barbalex.ch/downloads/erl_crash.dump Alex
