Try to remove the firewall and see if it is working. If it still doesn't 
work it may be a problem of permissions (if everything was installed 
correctly) or path.




On 10/25/2011 02:58 PM, Ron Dyck wrote:
> I've been having intermittent connection problems with my couchdb
> installation. The error is: "Could not connect to server at
> <myipaddress>:5984: '111: Connection refused' "
>
> I have a remote installation with the binding address set to 0.0.0.0
> My installation is on a AWS linux instance: Amazon Linux AMI x86_64
> using the https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb install script.
>
> The problem is very sporadic, occasionally a reload of the page
> connects, most other times it does not. I've checked the logs
> immediately after the connection loss with no evidence of anything.
> When I test the connection locally: curl 127.0.0.1:5984 I get error
> connecting. The process is still running when I check ps ax | grep
> beam. I'm forced to kill the process and start the server.
>
> Currently we access the server from 3 different locations and my
> firewall is set to restrict access to port 5984 from specified IP
> addresses.
>
> Any help is really appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> ron