Yon need to be admin to create ddocs. So when entering url to replicate to in futon, you need to enter http://admin:[email protected]:5984/database
regards -- Paweł Stawicki http://pawelstawicki.blogspot.com http://szczecin.jug.pl On 27/02/2010, James Marca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to replicate a database and not have to duplicate the view > building part. As a test, I just used futon to replicate one database > into a new database. > > I was expecting that the views would copy over too, but they > don't...looking in /var/lib/couchdb I see the .original_design > directory, but the .copy_design directory is empty. > > Are design documents supposed to be replicated or not? > > I have auth turn on, and I'd read somewhere in the mailing list that > it can sometimes cause problems with replication, but I can't find > details. > > My eventual use case is a data collection application. I want to have > a single master db that pulls in data from several detector-specific > dbs. Each sensor db will be computing its own data views, but I don't > want to have to repeat that work on the master server, I just want to > merge the trees together, if that is possible. Also I've found that > view generation tends to be faster if the data is split up into a > bunch of small dbs than if it is one big db, but that time savings is > meaningless if the big db also has to crunch the data. > > I'm running 0.11.x, pulled from the github repo on about Jan 13 (git > commit 67b876687796a64580d76f94b540d55fb8f4f4e7). > > Thanks in advance for any advice on this. > > James Marca > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >
