On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Noah Slater<[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jason, > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Jason Davies wrote: >> The basic idea is you add a "rewrites": [...] member to your design doc. >> This will allow rewriting of any URLs with the prefix mydb/ >> _design/app/_rewrite. The "rewrites" member is a list of rewrite rules >> of the form {match: ["foo/bar/<var>"], rewrite:["_view/myview", >> {startkey: ["<var>"], endkey: ["<var>", {}]}] > > This is great! > > Don't let me contribute stop-energy, but I am thinking that if we're going to > do > this, we might want to go the full way an implement this from the root URI of > the whole CouchDB server instead. > > Best, > > -- > Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater >
We've discussed where to push the URL rewriting previously. The biggest argument against a DB wide rewrite scheme is that _design/ documents could end up stomping on each other pretty easily. For reference in case other people are confused, the rewrite capabilities would be best used by putting a proxy in front of CouchDB that would rewrite all urls to the appropiate CouchDB path. Something like: Rewrite http://blog.mydomain.com/ to http://127.0.0.1:5984/my_blog_db/_design/sofar/_rewrite/ HTH, Paul Davis
