Quick update: the _design document has *validate_doc_update *which validate
updates.
By commenting out the following section fixed the issue:
// can't write to the db without logging in.
if (!user || !user.name) {
throw { forbidden: "Please log in before writing to the db" }
}
Regards,
Dmytro
On Thursday, February 6, 2014 4:42:16 PM UTC-8, Dmytro Semenov wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I am not sure if you need this, but maybe some other folks would find this
> helpful.
>
> I was able to reproduce this reliably on unrestricted couchdb (no login
> required)
>
> 1. Replicate one module to a new db to make sure replication works:
> curl http://localhost:5984/_replicate -X POST -d '{"source":"
> http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/","target":"pub-registry2","create_target":true,"continuous":false,"doc_ids":["system"]}'
>
> -H "Content-Type: application/json"
> 2. Replicate _design/app
> curl http://npmjs-db.stratus.dev.ebay.com/_replicate -X POST -d
> '{"source":"http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/","target":"pub-registry2","create_target":true,"continuous":false,"doc_ids":["_design/app"]}'
>
> -H "Content-Type: application/json"
> 3. Then try replicate some other module
> curl http://npmjs-db.stratus.dev.ebay.com/_replicate -X POST -d
> '{"source":"http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/
> ","target":"pub-registry2","create_target":true,"continuous":false,"doc_ids":["
> socket.io"]}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
> 4. Now delete _design/app and compact the DB and try replicating other
> modue as socket.io would be marked as failed and probably would take time
> to re-try by couchdb later.
>
> The root cause is _design/app (not sure if it is specific to one or any
> design docs), once it gets replicated, the replication starts getting
> //Error: `forbidden`, reason: `Please log in before writing to the db`.//
> And _design/app is used to handle some requests to couchdb.
>
> So in your case it looks like the case where it was replicating till it
> got some _design doc replicated which forbad further replication.
>
> In my case I was replicating from http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/
>
> I have not found what part in _design/app restricts the replication and
> require login first, just posting if someone got better clue faster than me.
>
> Regards,
> Dmytro
>
> On Monday, May 13, 2013 8:16:51 PM UTC-7, andy wrote:
>>
>> Based on the awesome feedback I got from
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/sX4mbsRPwls/WtDDE-To2o4J, we
>> tried replicating the npm repo so we could use it in an offline environment.
>>
>> We're essentially following the instructions at
>> http://clock.co.uk/tech-blogs/how-to-create-a-private-npmjs-repositorybut
>> replication fails after syncing about 17k documents.
>>
>> We've tried reinstalling couch (found one issue that suggested using a
>> patched version of SpiderMonkey) but the same thing keeps happening, even
>> after restarting replication several times.
>>
>> Here's our setup:
>>
>> CentOS 6.4
>> CouchDB 1.3
>> SpiderMonkey 1.8.5-7
>>
>> Replication works fine for over 17,000 documents, then we see this error
>> and can't get past it:
>>
>> [Sat, 11 May 2013 00:55:39 GMT] [error] [<0.12970.4>] Replicator:
>> couldn't write document `bufferhelper`, revision
>> `19-d339684ee7f5eaf4cc18d84da753832d`, to target database `registry`.
>> Error: `unauthorized`, reason: `Please log in before writing to the db`.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>
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