couchdb on ubuntu Karmic Koala
Toni UebernickelConnection refused
I need couchdb 0.10.0 as it provides JSONP support, so I installed the bleeding edge ubuntu Karmic Koala development branch, which ships couchdb 0.10.0. But when doing a simple curl request on the couchdb server, the connection was refused.
$ curl -vX GET https://127.0.0.1:5984
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 5984 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... Connection refused
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
To check what’s wrong use this command.
$ sudo -u couchdb couchdb
=ERROR REPORT==== 19-Oct-2009::21:49:09 ===
file:path_eval([".","/root"],".erlang"): permission denied
Apache CouchDB 0.10.0 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
[info] [<0.1.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on https://127.0.0.1:5984/
What’s important on this output is the permission denied error. In order to get this solved, you can either change the log section in your /etc/couchdb/local.ini to a logfile couchdb is allowed to write to or you add the directory and the file with correct permissions that is defined in the /etc/couchdb/default.ini as follows.
$ mkdir -p /var/log/couchdb/0.10.0/
$ touch /var/log/couchdb/0.10.0/couch.log
$ chown -R couchdb:adm /var/log/couchdb/
Now the logfile is setup correctly and you may request couchdb.
$ curl -X GET https://127.0.0.1:5984
{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0"}
$ curl -X GET https://127.0.0.1:5984?callback=fnName
fnName({"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0"});
Thanks to a lot of mail archives, that pointed me to what could be wrong (and finally I got it :D).