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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:18:28 +0600
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Subject: Re: Store Databases in /home/$user
From: Kinley Dorji <kinleyd@gmail.com>
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Wayne, that looks very useful. I've been wanting to mix versions of
CouchDB besides the one I got working off the Ubuntu repository, but
have not had much luck or time (more this) to get through the process.
I'm going to get back at it once again. Thanks for sharing.

Kinley

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Wayne Conrad <wconrad@yagni.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 03:32 AM, Markus Burrer wrote:
>>
>> Can I store local.ini in /home/$user and run CouchDB in user space?
>>
>>
>
> I'm running couchdb in userspace, installed to the user's home directory.=
 =A0I
> did this so that my built-from-source couchdb won't interfere with the
> installed-from-package couchdb. =A0Here's how I did it:
>
> Install the Debian couchdb package. =A0This is just a lazy way to get a
> couchdb user with the home directory /var/lib/couchdb. =A0There' s nothin=
g
> magical about the package. =A0Create the user and directory manually if y=
ou
> want, or use an existing user.
>
> Become the user (e.g. "sudo su - couchdb")
>
> Download the source or clone the git tree.
>
> Within the source directory, run ./configure with "--exec-prefix" and
> "--prefix" so that the installed files will go somewhere in the user's ho=
me
> directory. =A0I used something like this:
>
> $ ./configure --exec-prefix /var/lib/couchdb/custom-install --prefix
> /var/lib/couchdb/custom-install/local
>
> Then "make && make install" as usual. =A0You don't have to do any of it a=
s
> root: leave off the "sudo" when you "make install."
>
> You will find binaries in the .ini files in local/etc/couchdb, log files =
in
> local/var/log/couchdb. &c.
>
> To start: =A0$ local/etc/init.d/couchdb start.
>
> If you want this installation of couchdb to be the system default (start
> automatically when the box boots), then replace /etc/init.d/couchdb with =
a
> symlink to local/etc/init.d/couchdb.
>
> I've done this for 0.11.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and some version so new that the
> paint is still wet. =A0Worked every time.
>
> Note: I'm an amateur playing in a sandbox with much smarter kids. =A0Any =
or
> all of the above is likely to be thoroughly silly.
>
>