Installing Couchdb 1.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 server

Helpful links: http://cvee.github.com/blog/2011/11/28/configuring-couchdb-on-ubuntu/

1) install git

apt-get install git

2) make directory for source

mkdir /data/couchdb_source

3) put source files into directory

cd /data/couchdb_source
git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git

4) change branch to version you need. We will be checking out 1.2.0

cd /data/couchdb_source/couchdb
git checkout 1.2.0

5) Install dependencies needed to build couchdb

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential autoconf automake libtool erlang libicu-dev libmozjs-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

6) Build the configure and make files

./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/data/couchdb
make && sudo make install

7) Create a user account dedicated for CouchDB and update permissions

sudo adduser --system --home /data/couchdb/var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home --shell /bin/bash --group --gecos "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /data/couchdb
sudo chmod 0770 -R /data/couchdb

8) Update Admin pass

/data/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini

Change:

[admins]
root = [PASS]

9) Make it so couchdb will startup automatically

sudo cp /data/couchdb/etc/init.d/couchdb /etc/init.d
sudo update-rc.d couchdb defaults

10) Update Couchdb Config settings

nano /data/couchdb/etc/couchdb/default.ini

a) set delayed_commits - false
b) set reduce_limit - false

 11) Open firewall

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 5984 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 6984 -j ACCEPT

12) Start Couchdb

service couchdb start