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From: Jan Lehnardt <mail@jan.io>
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:35:29 +0200
Subject: Re: httpd vs chttpd, and 5984 vs 5986
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archived-at: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:35:42 -0000

Looks like you skipped over the "setup cluster" step from the installation n=
otes on docs.couchdb.org. Even a single/node cluster-of-one needs this, as i=
t creates the necessary system databases.

At this point, best to ignore the 5986 port (unless for per-node maintenance=
).

Cheers
Jan
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> On 12 Oct 2016, at 20:44, Timothy McKernan <timbitsandbytes@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>=20
> I've installed CouchDB 2.0.0 from source using:
> ./configure
> make release
> sudo mv rel/couchdb /var/lib/couchdb
> sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/lib/couchdb
> sudo -u couchdb /var/lib/couchdb/bin/couchdb
>=20
> The problem I'm seeing is that, by default, [chttpd] is being assigned por=
t
> 5984 (in the default.ini) and [httpd] is assigned 5986.
>=20
> Throughout the online docs port 5984 is referenced for the majority of
> endpoints, such as fauxton.
>    Used for pretty much everything, such as couchapps (fauxton is the new
> futon) and db access.
>=20
> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/intro/tour.html?highlight=3D5984#welcome-=
to-fauxton
> And port 5986 is the "back-door" port.
>    http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/cluster/databases.html?highlight=3D598=
6
>    http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/whatsnew/2.0.html?highlight=3D5986
>=20
> So we end up with the following behavior:
> md-007:~ $ curl -k -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/_all_dbs
> []
> md-007:~ $ curl -k -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5986/_all_dbs
> ["_dbs","_nodes","_replicator","_users","md_rules","monitor"]
> md-007:~ $ curl -k -X GET https://127.0.0.1:6984/_all_dbs
> ["_dbs","_nodes","_replicator","_users","md_rules","monitor"]
>=20
> It seems that chttpd doesn't have the usual default access to everything
> that it used to in couchdb 1.6. Indeed, if you use fauxton over port 5984
> as the docs say to, it _doesn't_ show you any db's, because it clearly
> (from the above curl examples) can't see any. And the emulator complains
> because it's using 5984 to try and find _users.
>=20
> [error] 2016-10-12T18:42:53.106630Z couchdb@localhost emulator --------
> Error in process <0.4185.0> on node couchdb@localhost with exit value:
> {database_does_not_exist,[{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_db,"_users",[{file=
,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,327}]},{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_disk,1,[{=
file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,315}]},{mem3_shards,load_shards_from_disk,=
2,[{file,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,331}]},{mem3_shards,for_docid,3,[{file=
,"src/mem3_shards.erl"},{line,87}]},{fabric_doc_open,go,3,[{file,"src/fabric=
_doc_open.erl"},{line,38}]},{chttpd_auth_cache,ensure_auth_ddoc_exists,2,[{f=
ile,"src/chttpd_auth_cache.erl"},{line,187}]},{chttpd_auth_cache,listen_for_=
changes,1,[{file,"src/chttpd_auth_cache.erl"},{line,134}]}]}
>=20
> What's the correct configuration here? What ports should chttpd and httpd
> be set to so that the emulator process isn't erroring?