Unable to connect to loaclhost:5984 from the docker container

[pradeep122]

I pulled the latest docker image and ran it (frodenas/couchdb:1.6).

It does start the couch db service but fails connecting to it.

on running docker logs couchdb, this is what I see

Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
...
...

Possibly related issue - docker/issues/#98

[frodenas]

Interesting, I'm not able to reproduce your issue. What docker version are you using?

➜  ~  docker run -d --name couchdb -p 5984:5984 frodenas/couchdb:1.6
6f5151d5a0a3e20f25f287b2069cc4ab16b7523564f55a25a5ca0802ea1dfadb
➜  ~  docker logs couchdb
Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
nc: connect to localhost port 5984 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
Connection to localhost 5984 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
Creating user: "couchdb"...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    21  100     3  100    18    102    614 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   620
""
Apache CouchDB has been shutdown.
========================================================================
CouchDB User: "couchdb"
CouchDB Password: "H9eF4TUIXBxZNKzb"
========================================================================
Starting CouchDB...
Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
[info] [<0.32.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://0.0.0.0:5984/

[pradeep122]

$>> sudo docker version
Client version: 1.6.2
Client API version: 1.18
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 7c8fca2
OS/Arch (client): linux/amd64
Server version: 1.6.2
Server API version: 1.18
Go version (server): go1.4.2
Git commit (server): 7c8fca2
OS/Arch (server): linux/amd64

[jessecarrigan]

I'm having a similar issue. I'm running Docker via Boot2Docker on OSX. I am able to get information from docker logs couchdb, but any other attempts to connect to http://localhost:5894 result in a refused connection.

Client version: 1.7.0
Client API version: 1.19
Go version (client): go1.4.2
Git commit (client): 0baf609
OS/Arch (client): darwin/amd64
Server version: 1.7.0
Server API version: 1.19
Go version (server): go1.4.2
Git commit (server): 0baf609
OS/Arch (server): linux/amd64

[pirafrank]

this issue can be closed. localhost:5894 is wrong.
if you're on OS X, check the IP of the Linux VM where your docker container is running. you can find that when starting the Docker Quickstart Terminal.
the address should be something like 192.168.99.100. It's not 0.0.0.0 or localhost.