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From: Walter Torres <walter@torres.ws>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:21:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: CouchDB as a windows service.
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The reasons for this are too numerous to go into.

As for "can't do this because it is a SERVICE" doesn't hold water.

I have Apache and mySQL running, as a SERVICE, without REG KEYS. No securit=
y
issues to deal with, beyond the normal crappy Windows security. But then, I
am not using this for production, just development.

Thanks Dennis for your opinion. (I take it that you stated your opinion
since you used the words "I think").

Anybody know about this process. I would really appreciate it.

Walter


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dennis Redfield <
dennis.lee.redfield@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure why you want to go with this pain.  As I understand this yo=
u
> want to install Couchdb as a service on windows without using the install=
er
> and without using any registry keys.  Is this correct.  I believe this is
> going to be impossible. When dealing with services in Windows system you
> are
> working with the security core (think ring 0) of the system and to try th=
is
> manually (and without setting registry keys correctly - including the
> security settings on these keys) just is NOT going to work.  QUESTION: wh=
y
> do you want to do this? Perhaps you can achieve your goals another way.
>
> dlr
>
> On Thursday, August 4, 2011, Walter <phpwalter@torres.ws> wrote:
> > I am trying to do this the hard way.
> >
> > No installer, not registry keys, etc.
> >
> > I pulled this:
> >
> > couchdb-1.1.0+COUCHDB-1152_otp_R14B03_lean.7z<
>
> https://github.com/downloads/dch/couchdb/couchdb-1.1.0+COUCHDB-1152_otp_R=
14B03_lean.7z
> >
> > =97
> > Use for repackaging CouchDB in other apps - no installer, just bare bon=
es
> > binaries of Apache CouchDB 1.1.0 with ICU 4.4.2 and Erlang/OTP R14B03
> >
> > I also pulled he installer, ran it, noted file locations and registry
> keys
> > (Yuck!) and then restored my system to the point before installation.
> This
> > removed all files from system, anything that might have been thrown in
> > WINDOWS directory and it cleaned the registry.
> >
> > I than "installed" the files from the .7z file on my secondary volume,
> with
> > all my other linux tools and tried to make it work from there.
> >
> > When I start the SERVICE I get this error
> >
> > Error 1012: The configuration registry key could not be read.
> >
> > Wonderful! (not) This needs a reg key.  :/
> >
> > Is there anyway around this? If not, what is the minimal key set this
> needs
> > to run?
> >
> > Also (if there is not a key workaround), is there anyone who can help
> > re-"make", from the source, a windows binary that does not need REG KEY=
S.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Walter
> >
>
> --
> Trust No One
>

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