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CouchDB 1.0 on Windows
In case you haven’t heard by now, CouchDB 1.0 was released earlier this month. One of the questions I’ve been asked most about CouchDB is how can one go about installing it on Windows. Up until recently, there were a few hacked installers available, each of which would install CouchDB and its dependencies, but these far from perfect, with most of CouchDB’s test suite failing when run under this setup. Thankfully, there is now an official Windows binary available which will have you up and running with CouchDB in no time.
Step 1: Grab the binary from http://www.couch.io/get
Step 2: Unzip to your hard drive (I unzipped to C:\ and renamed the extracted folder to couchdb).
Step 3: Go into the bin directory and run couchdb.bat. This will launch the Erlang command line and run CouchDB. You should see a DOS window with the message “CouchDB 1.0.0 – prepare to relax…”.
Step 4: Open your browser and point it to http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/ to launch Futon
Step 5: From the navigation bar on the right hand side, click on “Test Suite” and at the top of the test suite’s page, click the “Run All” button to start the tests. Leave your browser do its thing (it’ll lock up while it’s performing the tests) and all going well, each of 66 tests should return with a success message.
Step 6: Click on “Overview” at the top right of the browser and start creating CouchDB databases!
Enjoy.
