After installing CouchDB I wanted to be able to access the /_stats page which is supposed to contain a lot of statistics about the running instance. The thing is that page is now displaying
{"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist."}After looking for a long time, the solution came from IRC channel #couchdb, and I need to access /_node/couchdb@127.0.0.1/_stats, where couchdb@127.0.0.1 is the node name you find in vm.args on ArchLinux.
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# Each node in the system must have a unique name. These are specified through
# the Erlang -name flag, which takes the form nodename@hostname. CouchDB
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# 1. If this is a single node, not in a cluster, use:
# -name couchdb@127.0.0.1
# 2. If DNS is configured for this host, use the FQDN, such as:
# -name couchdb@my.host.domain.com
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# Multiple CouchDBs running on the same machine can use couchdb1@, couchdb2@,
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-name couchdb@127.0.0.1
# All nodes must share the same magic cookie for distributed Erlang to work.
# Comment out this line if you synchronized the cookies by other means (using
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-setcookie monster
# Tell kernel and SASL not to log anything
-kernel error_logger silent
-sasl sasl_error_logger false
# Use kernel poll functionality if supported by emulator
+K true
# Start a pool of asynchronous IO threads
+A 16
# Comment this line out to enable the interactive Erlang shell on startup
+Bd -noinput