Redirect the welcome page without breaking Futon?

[Hendrik Jan van Meerveld]

Hi Couch users,

For my new Couchdb website I am looking to a way to achieve the following.
I would like my visitors to just type "http://www.mysite.com/"; and be
redirected to another page.

Using Nginx as a reverse proxy works if I use the following rewrite:

location / {
rewrite ^ /mydatabase/_design/main/_show/blah/home permanent;
 proxy_pass http://localhost:5984;
proxy_redirect off;
 proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
 }

The problem with this approach is that Futon starts complaining because the
welcome page is no valid JSON anymore.


Is there a way to redirect "http://www.mysite.com"; and still keep Futon
working.


Thanks for any help.
Kind regards,
Hendrik Jan