Installation of CouchDB on RHEL 5

My system configuration

OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Kernel: 2.6.18-128.el5
Hardware: SUN x4200 (AMD Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2220)

Building Couch from Source Code

1. Download and install pre-requisites software:

• libicu-3.6-5.11.1
• libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.1.x86_64
• openssl-0.9.8e-7.el5
• openssl-devel-0.9.8e-7.el5
• curl-7.15.5-2.el5
• curl-devel-7.15.5-2.el5
• automake-1.9.6-2.1
• autoconf-2.59-12
• libtool-1.5.22-6.1
• gcc-4.1.2-44.el5
• erlang-R12B-5.6.el5.1.x86_64
• js-devel-1.60-1.el5.rf.x86_64
• js-1.60-1.el5.rf.x86_64

   2. Download the CouchDB source code

• apache-couchdb-0.10.1.tar.gz

   3. Untar the couchdb archive

   4. Compile the source code

• ./configure –with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include
• make
• make install

   5. Modify config file to suit your environment

• Edit /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini and change the port and bind_address value.

   6. Create couchdb administrator

•  adduser -r --home /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb -M --shell /bin/bash --comment "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb

   7. Change the ownership of the Apache CouchDB directories:

• chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb
• chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
• chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
• chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb

   8. Change the permission of the Apache CouchDB directories:

• chmod -R 0770 /usr/local/etc/couchdb
• chmod -R 0770 /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
• chmod -R 0770 /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
• chmod -R 0770 /usr/local/var/run/couchdb

   9. Setup couchdb to startup automatically after reboot

• ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
• chkconfig --add couchdb
• chkconfig --level 345 couchdb on

 10. Start couchdb

• /sbin/service couchdb start

 11. Launch browser and go to the http://bind_address:port_number. Use the values as per step 5.