If you run into a "Connection Refused" error when trying to access CouchDB from somewhere other than localhost, luckily it's an easy fix.
By default CouchBD is set to bind only to 127.0.0.1, which I suppose is nice for security reasons since when you first install CouchDB it's wide open.
To fix this, open {couchdb_install_dir}etccouchdbdefault.ini and in the [httpd] section, change the bind_address value from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 so it will be accessible from any IP.
Save the file, restart CouchDB, and you should be golden.
2 comments:
Thanks!
Thank you very much for this post!
It's so simple. I can't believe they don't mention localhost being the only default connection, or how to change this in the "Getting started with CouchDB" document.
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