Libremap Installation Ubuntu 13.04

Libremap comes with 2 main components for installation which are :

1. Libremap-webui
2. Libremap-api

The directives of installing libremap are pretty clear on those repositories.

So from my experience, these are all the steps, i took to make sure everything was running.

After installing couchdb and geocouch, I created a database from couchdb (also created an admin account) and named it "mapit" for example. When installing libremap-api i got to this section below :

Copy couch.json.example to couch.json and configure your CouchDB server there.

I did per the instruction and since i had to change the contents of the couch.json file, this is what i included for the "dev" section.

"dev": {

      "database": "http://localhost:5984/mapit",

      "user": "admin",

      "pass": "admin"

    }

The url is where your couchdb database is located and the passwords beneath. 

So after the setup of libremap-api, i moved to the libremap-webui phase where i followed the instructions as stated in the link provided. At step 3,

1. Copy config.json.example to config.json and configure your LibreMap API URL there. If you don't have your own LibreMap API you can use an existing one, for example http://libremap.net/api.

Since i wanted to have my own libremap instance and use my own API url, what i did was to add my own api url inside the config.json file which is :

http://localhost:5984/mapit/_design/libremap-api/_rewrite/

Note : The url can be made shorter with vhost.

After that being done with other minor changes in the config.json file, i proceeded to also create the couch.json file which i added the database url as i did before with the libremap-api couch.json file. (I mention only the file changing steps, other steps such as "grunt push --couch dev" should not be skipped)

Et voila ! Thats all, i did and the next thing was to run using grunt. Which then gave me a url to access the webui (in my case 0.0.0.0:9000)