Right, having installed couchdb everything went wrong when I installed geocouch. But I have that fixed now, so I thought I would again make a note of what worked.
OS Ubuntu 11.10
couchdb 1.1.1
geocouch 1.1.x
First, I cloned geocouch from github:
git clone -b couchdb1.1.x https://github.com/couchbase/geocouch.git
Note: select the correct branch for the version of couchdb running. I think the default is master which is configured to work with couchbase. So, selecting the branch (-b) is important.
Now, I originally cloned geocouch into the ~/Downloads directory. Big mistake, since it subsequently became clear that Erlang couldn’t use the directory even when it was on its path. So, I moved geocouch to /usr/local/src:
mv ~/Downloads/geocouch /usr/local/src/
Now comes the tricky bit. In the ReadMe they use a <vanilla-couch> variable to designate the path to the couchdb source. But, they also use it for the path to the /default.d directory of the installed couchdb, a different place – now that is confusing.
So, first set a local environment variable COUCH_SRC in the terminal. The ‘make’ file uses this variable. You don’t need to make this variable permanent, since it is only used when making geocouch.
export COUCH_SRC=/usr/local/src/apache-couchdb-1.1.1/src/couchdb
Go into the geocouch directory
cd /usr/local/src/geocouch
And run the make command
make
This creates a new directory called /build with lots of .beam files.
Now, Erlang needs to have these .beam files on its path. Therefore, set the following environment variable:
ERL_FLAGS="-pa /usr/local/src/geocouch/build"
I edited the /etc/environment file to persist the ERL_FLAGS environment variable. I think you need to login again to make the change.
Finally, geocouch has a geocouch.ini file here: … /geocouch/etc/couchdb/local.d/ Copy this into the /local.d directory of the installed couchdb (not the source). I happen to have the couchdb installed at /opt/couchdb/.
sudo cp /usr/local/src/geocouch/etc/couchdb/local.d/geocouch.ini /opt/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.d/
That’s it.
Geocouch comes with some tests to check that the install has worked. First copy the test scripts into your installed couchdb:
cp /usr/local/src/geocouch/share/www/script/test/* /opt/couchdb/share/couchdb/www/script/test/
Then edit the couch_tests.js file to include these new tests.
sudo gedit /opt/couchdb/share/couchdb/www/script/couch_tests.js
Paste in:
loadTest("spatial.js");
loadTest("list_spatial.js");
loadTest("etags_spatial.js");
loadTest("multiple_spatial_rows.js");
loadTest("spatial_compaction.js");
loadTest("spatial_design_docs.js");
loadTest("spatial_bugfixes.js");
Start couchdb
sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start
Then check
curl localhost:5984
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