Since we all installed CouchDB the same way with Homebrew, we can be sure that our CouchDB logs all live in the same location. With that in mind, let's look at our CouchDB log.
1. Open Terminal.
2. Retrieve the last few lines of the log by running the following command:
tail /usr/local/var/log/couchdb/couch.log
3. Terminal will return something similar to the following:
[Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:04:56 GMT] [info] [<0.879.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'GET' /_uuids?count=1 200 [Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:04:56 GMT] [info] [<0.879.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'PUT' /_users/org.couchdb.user:johndoe 409
We used a tail
command to return the last few lines of the CouchDB log.
The first record you'll notice is /uuids?count=1
, which is us grabbing the UUIDs for salt
in our signup
function. Notice that it returned a 200
status, which means that it executed successfully.
The next line says'PUT' /_users/org.couchdb.user:johndoe
, and it returned a 409
response. The...