You can actually setup virtual hosts and url rewrites inside CouchDB to allow you to pretty much map any URL to a doc or function that you want. It may allow you to go without nginx or with little relying on it:
http://blog.couchbase.com/whats-new-in-apache-couchdb-0-11-part-one-nice-urls -- Sean Copenhaver On Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Hendrik Jan van Meerveld wrote: 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 >
