On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert (Campbell), the replicator uses the authentication credentials you > supply in your POST to /_replicate to open any local DBs. If you're doing > this through Futon, it may be that Futon is not sending an Authorization > header in that replication request. I suspect that if you try the request > manually, e.g. > > curl http://user:[email protected]:5984/_replicate -d > '{"source":"http://source.net:5984/dbname";, "target":"dbname"}' > > it will successfully replicate the design docs. Alternatively, you can > trigger the replication from the source and supply a user:pass in the target > URL.
I've been working around this by using the Futon replicator, but treating both requests as remote dbs, so I can add basic auth credentials to the target URL. Best, > > Adam > > On Dec 20, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Robert Campbell wrote: > >> The source machine is completely open, while the destination machine >> is locked down. I log in to the destination machine, then select the >> remote (source, open) database to copy from, then the local, empty DB >> to copy into. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Is your source machine locked down with admin passwords? If so, the >>> other machine can't read your design documents, you'll need to >>> authenticate the replication task. >>> >>> B. >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I have a small database (only 20 docs) and I'm trying to replicate it. >>>> The result is this: >>>> >>>> {"session_id":"7ae2bab4cff6911316ba06f038818cb9","start_time":"Fri, 18 >>>> Dec 2009 15:03:05 GMT","end_time":"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:03:09 >>>> GMT","start_last_seq":0,"end_last_seq":121,"recorded_seq":121,"missing_checked":0,"missing_found":24,"docs_read":25,"docs_written":20,"doc_write_failures":5} >>>> >>>> None of the design docs get brought over. Both are 0.10.0 instances >>>> running on Ubuntu 9.10. Retrying the replication doesn't help. >>>> >>> > > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
