The INSTALL.unix files don't mention it, but at least on debian/ubuntu
you also need to change the permissions and ownership of
/usr/local/lib/couchdb and I usually do the same on
/usr/local/share/couchdb.

To check my permissions are setup properly, I run:
find /usr/local -name couch\* -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

and that will show you all the dirs in /usr/local for couchdb and make
it easy to find the one with bad permissions.


-Russell

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Paul J. Davis
<paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anything get displayed if you try and start in interactive mode? Try with "couchdb -i"
>
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Maclin Kallat <maclinkallat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have changed the permissions as per the INSTALL.Unix
>>
>> Change the ownership of the CouchDB directories by running:
>>
>>    chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb
>>    chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
>>    chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
>>    chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb
>>
>> Change the permission of the CouchDB directories by running:
>>
>>    chmod 0770 /usr/local/etc/couchdb
>>    chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
>>    chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
>>    chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/run/couchdb
>>
>> It still doesn't start.
>>
>> Maclin
>>
>>
>> On 20 Apr 2011, at 18:14, Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Maclin Kallat <maclin@boxsolutions.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have installed Couchdb 1.0.1 from source
>>>>
>>>> wget
>>>> http://mirrors.enquira.co.uk/apache//couchdb/1.0.1/apache-couchdb-1.0.1.tar.gz
>>>> wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> I also have the Erlang 5.8.1 installed.
>>>>
>>>> I can start Couchdb properly but am unable to check it using curl:
>>>>
>>>> Here are the commands:
>>>>
>>>> sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b
>>>> Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
>>>> curl localhost:5984
>>>> curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
>>>>
>>>> What could be possibly going wrong?
>>>> How can I diagnose this or check errors somewhere about whats missing?
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be extremely appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Maclin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Its probably a permissions error. Check the INSTALL.Unix for a list of
>>> directories that CouchDB needs to have write access to.
>>
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