How to Setup Sync Gateway on Ubuntu/DigitalOcean

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1. dpkg -i
   gives following error:
   dpkg -i couchbase-sync-gateway-community_1.2.0-79_x86_64.deb
   dpkg-deb: error: ‘couchbase-sync-gateway-community_1.2.0-79_x86_64.deb’ is not a debian format archive
   dpkg: error processing archive couchbase-sync-gateway-community_1.2.0-79_x86_64.deb (–install):
   subprocess dpkg-deb –control returned error exit status 2
   Errors were encountered while processing:
   couchbase-sync-gateway-community_1.2.0-79_x86_64.deb

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2. From your article I learned a lot.Thank you very much！

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3. What is the safe way to use CouchbaseLite with CouchDB?

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   1. @faissaal7,
      Couchbase Lite supports CouchDB REST API. Couchbase Lite can directly replicates with CouchDB.

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4. hello 🙂 I am a total Couchbase noob but after some time I got Couchbase server to run on digital ocean. in fact I could follow the steps until 4.2, the sync gateway installation on the server. Now comes the point. I completely don’t understand the further steps with the config file. I want to develop an iOS app out of interest in the technology. but do I understand it right that the config file is located on the Mac and stays there?? how is it linked to the app later? or do you only need the config file once to update the config on the server? could someone please explain to me how this works and how to do the steps 4.3 and 4.4 please? im completely lost

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   1. Hi @Sebastian_Pet,
      You don’t need to write the complicated Sync Gateway configuration file if you just need basic features of Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server.
      You could refer Sync Gateway Configuration file documentation.
      Your iOS application just needs to know IP or hostname of Sync Gateway and Database name. These URL should be set when you create Replicators.
      Couchbase Lite Replication Documentation.

      Thanks,
      Hideki

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      1. Hey @Hideki,

         Thanks a lot for your really fast answer! but what if I want (in a later state of developing) to add something to the config file. thats the point I don’t understand. what should I do then? and the other thing I don’t understand, is the thing with the IP+ DBName. I got the ip and the port of my Couchbase server and of Sync Gateway. But I don’t have a DBName, only the Data Bucket name I created. so when I want the enter for my example http://:4984/ I only get the error {“error”:”not_found”,”reason”:”no such database \”\””}

         Best regards,
         Sebastian

      2. If you have any sync gateway question, I strongly recommend posting the question to Couchbase Forum in Sync Gateway Category.
         URL: https://forums.couchbase.com/c/mobile/sync-gateway

         I don’t understand, is the thing with the IP+ DBName.

         Sync Gateway URL -> http://:/. The database name is the name which is configured in sync gateway configuration file. This is not same with Couchbase Server bucket name. Couchbase Lite can not directly replicate with Couchbase Server. It can communicate with only Sync Gateway. You could use same DB name for Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server bucket name. In my sample, 4.3 sync gateway configuration file “DB name” is “sync_gateway”. I also created bucket name, “sync_gateway” in Couchbase Server.

         I hope this helps you.

      3. there went something wrong with the links above in my comment -.- it should be: [ip of server]:4984/[Name of Bucket]

         and the error: {“error”:”not_found”,”reason”:”no such database \[Bucket name]\””}

         Hope the links are formatted now correctly sorry

      4. Can you post your sync gateway configuration file with hiding IP address and confidential information?

5. I took the configuration of your description above

   {
   “interface”:”:4984″,
   “adminInterface”:”:4985″,
   “log”:[“REST”],
   “databases”:{
   “sync_gateway”:{
   “users”: {“GUEST”: {“disabled”: false, “all_channels”: [“*”], “admin_channels”: [“*”]}},
   “server”:”[IP of Server on Digital Ocean]:8091″,
   “bucket”:”sync_gateway”,
   “sync”:`function(doc) {channel(doc.channels);}`
   }
   }
   }

   but the config file is on my mac on the desk, but how do i get the sync_gateway from digital ocean to adopt this configuration from the local file once, so that i can use the sync_gateway from wherever I want to after this one time? sorry if I annoy you

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6. From config file, the database name on Sync Gateway is `sync_gateway`. Also, you need to create `sync_gateway` bucket on Couchbase Server.

   You should copy this configuration file to the machine on the digital ocean. Then you can run with following command:
   “`
   ./bin/sync_gateway ./config.json
   “`

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   1. Ok thank you very much for your help, now I understand how it all works. but could you please tell me one thing, how and where to copy the config file to the digital ocean server?

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      1. @Sebastian_Pet,

         > how and where to copy the config file to the digital ocean server?

         You can put config file any place you want. Just Sync Gateway needs to have a read access right.