Install CouchDB 1.6.x on Debian 7 (Wheezy)
09 Jan 2015 
Matteo Mattei 
linux server couchdb debian erlang 
Setup repository and install all dependencies
echo "deb http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/debian wheezy contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -qO - http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/debian/erlang_solutions.asc | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install -y build-essential curl erlang-nox erlang-dev libmozjs185-1.0 libmozjs185-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev
Create CouchDB account
useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb couchdb
mkdir -p /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb /var/lib/couchdb
chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb
chmod -R g+rw /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb
Install CouchDB
wget http://apache.panu.it/couchdb/source/1.6.1/apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
tar xzf apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd apache-couchdb-1.6.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-js-lib=/usr/lib --with-js-include=/usr/include/js --enable-init
make && make install
Create symlinks and start the database
chown couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini
ln -s /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
update-rc.d couchdb defaults
Verify that all is working fine
curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/
The output should be like this:
{"couchdb":"Welcome","uuid":"5da242ff50cecec904d6caf36be34194","version":"1.6.1","vendor":{"name":"The Apache Software Foundation","version":"1.6.1"}}
Finalize setup
In order to connect from remote edit /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini and change
bind_address 127.0.0.1
to:
bind_address to 0.0.0.0
Restart the database:
service couchdb restart
And from a web browser visit the CouchDB Futon:
http://HOST:5984/_utils