Hello!

It could be an IPv6-thingy that is messing with you.

Ping localhost to see if it really resolves to 127.0.0.1 and not to IPv6:s 
loopback address which is [::1].
In that case a small change in the hosts-file will sort it out: 
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts


Rickard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Miller" <steve_miller@sil.org>
To: "CouchDB Mailing List" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: Newbie: Can't Load Futon


>I have installed CouchDB on Windows XP. In both Firefox and IE, I have 
>connected to the database with:
>
>     http://localhost:5984/.
>
> I see displayed in the browser:
>   {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.0.0"}
>
> This was nice to see. Per the O'Reilly Getting Started book, I tried to 
> load Futon with the command:
>
>    http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/
>
> This produces the response:
>
>  Not found.
>
> I'm not coming up with a way around this.
>
> Steve