Configuration issue about birdreader HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the feedback, Mike.

It sounds like your problems stem from the App being unable to connect to the CouchDB database(s), because the app creates the databases at startup and this doesn't seem to have happened in your case.

I tried to reproduce your problem by installing CouchDB locally using MacPorts

sudo port install couchdb
sudo port load couchdb

You can verify that CouchDB is running by visiting "http://localhost:5984/" in your browser which should return some JSON.

Then you can change your birdreader/includes/config.json to look like this:

{
  "cloudant": {
     "server": "http://localhost",
     "port": 5984,
     "username": "",
     "password": "",
     "secure": false
  }
}

N.B.make sure "secure" is false, otherwise the app will try and use HTTPS to connect to the server.

If you remove the databases you manually created with Futon, when you run birdreader for the first team, you should get:

> node birdreader.js 
Listening on port 3000
Creating views - first time only

The "Creating views" line is important. This means that it has connected to the database, has created the databases and has inserted the essential views in your "articles" database.

You can verify that the articles database is fully formed by visiting 'http://localhost:5984/articles/_all_docs' in your browser and you should see a document with the id "design/matching"

{
    "total_rows": 1,
    "offset": 0,
    "rows": [
        {
            "id": "_design/matching",
            "key": "_design/matching",
            "value": {
                "rev": "1-2d54cc9d1694dd0352a836c745022d43"
            }
        }
    ]
}

If this works, then you should be good to go. Import some feeds and wait for the articles to be fetched.

In response to your issue I've updated the startup logic so that it outputs what it's doing to the console and I've updated the README to indicate that you need 'make' on a Mac.

Hope this helps.

Glynn

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That fixed it. I had: https in my server line, and secure set to true - switching them off, deleting my handmade db's, and pulled your recent change....and everything worked.
Thanks for your quick reply. Awesome!
Mike

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Great news!

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