can't create server-admin in couchdb

Question

I'm following the couchdb security documentation (http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/intro/security.html) to try to create a server-admin using cURL: curl -X PUT $HOST/_config/admins/anna -d '"secret"'

When I do this, I get an error: {"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist."}

I'm on v2.0 so I don't known if something has changed since the 1.6 version of the documentation. I can create server-admins just fine using fauxton. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To anybody else running into this issue, it's an easy answer: in couchdb 2.0 some of the APIs moved to using port 5986 ... I had been using port 5984 (which is still used a lot in v2.0, but apparently not for the _config endpoint).

The following works:

curl -X PUT http://localhost:5986/_config/admins/admin1 -d '"password"'

Answer 2

The Couchdb2 way of adding a user is

curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_node/nodename/_config/admins/admin1 -d '"password"'