Creating users - getting back "Database does not exist."

[Nicholas Outram]

I’m working though the tutorial on CouchDB

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/intro/security.html

I’m at the section “Creating a New User”, where is says:

Creating a new user is a very trivial operation. You just need to do a PUT<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.6> request with the user’s data to CouchDB. Let’s create a user with login jan and password apple:

curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user:jan \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "jan", "password": "apple", "roles": [], "type": "user"}'

When I try this, I get

{"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist.”}



I’m missing something here. Can anyone advise?

Nick
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[Joan Touzet]

You missed the setup step where you create the _users database:

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/install/index.html#single-node-setup

-Joan

[Nicholas Outram]

Thank you Joan - indeed I was missing something!

Much appreciated -

Nick

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[Karl Helmer]

Hi,

I think one possible reason for why this question comes up fairly
frequently is that if you follow the installation instructions starting
at 2.1 and then keep hitting "next topic", section 2.6, Single-node
Setup, is skipped - it goes from 2.5 -> 3.0.

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[Nicholas Outram]

Agreed - that would explain a lot.

Having the wrong port for _config also gave me quite a lot of trouble.

Getting there now :)

On 6 Dec 2016, at 14:13, Karl Helmer <hel...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu<mailto:hel...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:

Hi,

I think one possible reason for why this question comes up fairly
frequently is that if you follow the installation instructions starting
at 2.1 and then keep hitting "next topic", section 2.6, Single-node
Setup, is skipped - it goes from 2.5 -> 3.0.

regards,
Karl


Thank you Joan - indeed I was missing something!

Much appreciated -

Nick

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[Joan Touzet]

Hi Karl,

Agreed. The docs were rushed for the v2.0.0 release and need work.
Pull requests are welcome ;-)

[Karl Helmer]

Hi Joan,

I've actually been working on a separate "how-to" doc for 2.0
installation on Ubuntu linux just for my own records. It has info on a
few issues I've found as I go through the process. If you're
interested in it, I'd be happy to share (after I clean it up...). Or I
can submit individual pull requests if that works better.

regards,
Karl

[Joan Touzet]

If you can do the work to incorporate the information you've built up
into our actual documentation repository, that's the best option. We
want there to be a single place people go to learn how to install and
setup CouchDB 2.0.

If not, you can provide the HOWTO document to us, preferably with a
JIRA ticket suggesting the info be incorporated into the installation
documentation, and we'll make a best effort to get the info into the
real docs.

Thanks again for your help!

Best,

[Jan Lehnardt]

In addition, PRs against https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation would ideal for us, and would guarantee the fastest turnaround time to publication ;)

Best
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[Daniel Munch]

Hi,

another question regarding single-node-setup: Is it mandatory to run
the setup wizard? If yes, is there a way to run the single-node-setup
without the wizard, like there is for the cluster-setup?

What I'm currently doing is to configure my admin user and password
beforehand in the config file and create those special databases
_users, _replicator and _global_changes manually like written in the
docs. CouchDB runs fine after this, however I'm always feeling guilty
since I'm not 100% sure if I missed something because I didn't run the
wizard.

Thanks!
Daniel

[Jan Lehnardt]

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:30, Daniel Munch <dani....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> another question regarding single-node-setup: Is it mandatory to run
> the setup wizard? If yes, is there a way to run the single-node-setup
> without the wizard, like there is for the cluster-setup?
>
> What I'm currently doing is to configure my admin user and password
> beforehand in the config file and create those special databases
> _users, _replicator and _global_changes manually like written in the
> docs. CouchDB runs fine after this, however I'm always feeling guilty
> since I'm not 100% sure if I missed something because I didn't run the
> wizard.

The wizard does precisely this: set an admin password and create the
three system databases, so you’re good to go.

Best
Jan
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[Daniel Munch]

Great, thanks!

I think the question was asked before, but from the docs it doesn't
seem obvious that the wizard creates the three system databases as
well, it kind of reads as if you'd have to do this manually after it
ran. So if that's the case I'd go and add those informations to the
docs, guess this could be handy for others as well!

Best,
Daniel

[Jan Lehnardt]

> On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:58, Daniel Munch <dani....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> I think the question was asked before, but from the docs it doesn't
> seem obvious that the wizard creates the three system databases as
> well, it kind of reads as if you'd have to do this manually after it
> ran. So if that's the case I'd go and add those informations to the
> docs, guess this could be handy for others as well!

it definitely does: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-setup/blob/master/src/setup.erl#L172 ;)

[Daniel Munch]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> it definitely does: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-setup/blob/master/src/setup.erl#L172 ;)
>

I agree that code is the ultimate documentation, but for those who
prefer reading in English over Erlang I made a little translation ;)

https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/94