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Host CouchDB 2.0
Hello,
I’m very new to DigitalOcean and getting a server setup. Is this tutorial still current?
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-couchdb-and-futon-on-ubuntu-14-04
I know CouchDB is at 2.0 now.
I’m also wondering how do you securely expose CouchDB to PouchDB from a mobile client such as Ionic 2.
I currently have a Cloudant setup with NodeJS and I’m trying to find an alternative due to API call costs.
Thanks,
dhndeveloper
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I’ve used these Install Instructions for CouchDB 2.1.1 on a DigitalOcean Droplet running Ubuntu 16.04
ssh root@Droplet-IP-ADDRESS
root@ubuntu-droplet:~# cd ../home
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home# mkdir temp
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home# cd temp
Copy and paste the “install-couchdb.sh” script included below to a file in the “/home/temp” directory and name it “install-couchdb.sh”
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home/temp# nano install-couchdb.sh
Then change the permissions and run the script:
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home/temp# chmod 777 install-couchdb.sh
Run the script to install CouchDB
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home/temp# ./install-couchdb.sh
After install:
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home/couchdb# curl http://localhost:5984
Output should be something like:
{“couchdb”:“Welcome”,“version”:“2.1.1”,“features”:[“scheduler”],“vendor”:{“name”:“The Apache Software Foundation”}}
Edit local ini file to bind ip address:
root@ubuntu-droplet:/home/couchdb# nano etc/local.ini
restart the server
sudo reboot
root@ubuntu-droplet:~# curl http://IP ADDRESS:5984
Output should be something like:
{“couchdb”:“Welcome”,“version”:“2.1.1”,“features”:[“scheduler”],“vendor”:{“name”:“The Apache Software Foundation”}}
The script below is an updated version of the one found here:
https://github.com/afiskon/install-couchdb/blob/master/install-couchdb.sh
####### install-couchdb.sh Script
!/bin/sh
set -e
sudo apt-get update || true
sudo apt-get –no-install-recommends -y install \
build-essential pkg-config runit erlang \
libicu-dev libmozjs185-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
wget http://apache-mirror.rbc.ru/pub/apache/couchdb/source/2.1.1/apache-couchdb-2.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apache-couchdb-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd apache-couchdb-2.1.1/
./configure && make release
sudo adduser –system \
–no-create-home \
–shell /bin/bash \
–group –gecos \
“CouchDB Administrator” couchdb
sudo cp -R rel/couchdb /home/couchdb
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /home/couchdb
sudo find /home/couchdb -type d -exec chmod 0770 {} \;
sudo sh -c ‘chmod 0644 /home/couchdb/etc/*’
sudo mkdir /var/log/couchdb
sudo chown couchdb:couchdb /var/log/couchdb
sudo mkdir /etc/sv/couchdb
sudo mkdir /etc/sv/couchdb/log
cat > run << EOF
!/bin/sh
export HOME=/home/couchdb
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -u couchdb /home/couchdb/bin/couchdb
EOF
cat > log_run << EOF
!/bin/sh
exec svlogd -tt /var/log/couchdb
EOF
sudo mv ./run /etc/sv/couchdb/run
sudo mv ./log_run /etc/sv/couchdb/log/run
sudo chmod u+x /etc/sv/couchdb/run
sudo chmod u+x /etc/sv/couchdb/log/run
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/couchdb/ /etc/service/couchdb
sleep 5
sudo sv status couchdb
######## End install-couchdb.sh Script