EM,

Are you still facing that. I too installed using homebrew. started service using: basexhttp, and made an http request:

http://localhost:8984/rest/<db_name>?query=<query>

and everything worked fine.

Is your database on local machine from where you started basexhttp ? I initially, had my database on external HDD, and service wasn't starting.

Hope this helps,

- Mansi

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Emmanuelle Morlock <emmanuelle.morlock@mom.fr> wrote:

Hi
sorry to ask a basic questions, but I'm a newbie that doesn't always understand all the pre-requisite in the documentation. If I can't find help here, just tell me.

I tried to install a local instance of baseX and use the web application features.
I work on mac and installed baseX with homebrew
after changing the password of the admin user,
and creating a database,
I launched the httpserver and typed in my browser http://localhost:8984/
the result is :

HTTP ERROR: 503

Problem accessing /webapp. Reason:
    Service Unavailable
what am I missing ?
is it even possible to use a web app on a local computer ?
thanks in advance for your help...

EM

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- Mansi