[annotator-dev] New dev and my first problem

[Rufus Pollock]

On 25 July 2011 09:19, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I work for a company that creates open educational resources and tools for
> educators and students. I've been given the task to make our books
> annotatable using the annotator software.
>

Great to hear!


> I have checked out the latest git source for the annotator-store and tried
> to run it using the instructions on the website. When I get to the "python
> run.py" step I get the following:
>

Just to check: you know you don't need to deploy the store to integrate with
your system as you can use the existing annotateit.org service as your
storage if you want. I would imagine that, at least in the first instance,
this will be easier as it will allow you to focus on integrating the
frontend javascript system.


> (pyenv)ewald at ewald-laptop:~/programming/annotator-store$ python run.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "run.py", line 6, in <module>
>     setup_app()
>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/app.py", line 23,
> in setup_app
>     model.init_model(app.config)
>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py",
> line 18, in init_model
>     Metadata.DB = setup_db(config['COUCHDB_DATABASE'])
>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py",
> line 21, in setup_db
>     if dbname in Metadata.SERVER:
>   File
> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/client.py",
> line 93, in __contains__
>     self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
>   File
> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
> line 377, in head
>     return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
>   File
> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
> line 419, in _request
>     credentials=self.credentials)
>   File
> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
> line 239, in request
>     resp = _try_request_with_retries(iter(self.retry_delays))
>   File
> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
> line 205, in _try_request_with_retries
>     raise e
> socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
>

You have installed and are running couchdb right :-) ?

Rufus


> I'm running on Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Any help in this regard will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
>
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