In addition, PRs against https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation would 
ideal for us, and would guarantee the fastest turnaround time to publication ;)

Best
Jan
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> On 7 Dec 2016, at 20:57, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you can do the work to incorporate the information you've built up
> into our actual documentation repository, that's the best option. We
> want there to be a single place people go to learn how to install and
> setup CouchDB 2.0.
> 
> If not, you can provide the HOWTO document to us, preferably with a
> JIRA ticket suggesting the info be incorporated into the installation
> documentation, and we'll make a best effort to get the info into the
> real docs.
> 
> Thanks again for your help!
> 
> Best,
> Joan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Karl Helmer" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Joan Touzet" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:45:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: Creating users - getting back "Database does not exist."
>> 
>> Hi Joan,
>> 
>>   I've actually been working on a separate "how-to" doc for 2.0
>> installation on Ubuntu linux just for my own records.  It has info on
>> a
>> few issues I've found as I go through the process.  If you're
>> interested in it, I'd be happy to share (after I clean it up...).  Or
>> I
>> can submit individual pull requests if that works better.
>> 
>> regards,
>> Karl
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi Karl,
>>> 
>>> Agreed. The docs were rushed for the v2.0.0 release and need work.
>>> Pull requests are welcome ;-)
>>> 
>>> -Joan
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Karl Helmer" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Cc: [email protected], "Joan Touzet" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 9:13:21 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: Creating users - getting back "Database does not
>>>> exist."
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>   I think one possible reason for why this question comes up
>>>>   fairly
>>>> frequently is that if you follow the installation instructions
>>>> starting
>>>> at 2.1 and then keep hitting "next topic", section 2.6,
>>>> Single-node
>>>> Setup, is skipped - it goes from 2.5 -> 3.0.
>>>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> Karl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you Joan - indeed I was missing something!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Much appreciated -
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nick
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>>>>> On 5 Dec 2016, at 18:33, Joan Touzet
>>>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> You missed the setup step where you create the _users database:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/install/index.html#single-node-setup
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Joan
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Nicholas Outram"
>>>>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 10:42:00 AM
>>>>> Subject: Creating users - getting back "Database does not
>>>>> exist."
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm working though the tutorial on CouchDB
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/intro/security.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm at the section "Creating a New User", where is says:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Creating a new user is a very trivial operation. You just need
>>>>> to
>>>>> do
>>>>> a
>>>>> PUT<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.6>
>>>>> request with the user's data to CouchDB. Let's create a user
>>>>> with
>>>>> login jan and password apple:
>>>>> 
>>>>> curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:jan \
>>>>>    -H "Accept: application/json" \
>>>>>    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>>>>>    -d '{"name": "jan", "password": "apple", "roles": [],
>>>>>    "type":
>>>>>    "user"}'
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I try this, I get
>>>>> 
>>>>> {"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist."}
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm missing something here. Can anyone advise?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nick
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