Glad I could help. If you get the kinks worked out it would be great if you post some information about your final solution. I would imagine others will find it useful (including me) one day.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Hendrik Jan van Meerveld <[email protected] > wrote: > Thank you Sean, > > I just tried it: it works! > > The rewrite should actually be: > { > "from" : "*", > "to" : "_show/show/welcome" > } > > And I need to do a lot of fine-tuning, but the first results look > promising. > Also need to put futon.domain.com in my hosts file I suppose. > > Kind regards, > Hendrik Jan > > On 11 April 2011 20:47, Sean Copenhaver <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think you would have to do a virtual host for both futon and your app. > > > > Something like: > > > > futon.domain.com = /_utils > > domain.com = /db/_design/app/_rewrite > > > > Then in _design/app/_rewrite, something like: > > { > > from: '/' > > to: '_show/show/welcome' > > } > > > > I have only played around with rewrites a little and have no couchdb > right > > now to test with, so someone would have to confirm. > > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Hendrik Jan van Meerveld > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Thank you Sean, > > > > > > I am not sure that your sollution will work in my special case. > > > It is an existing URL that I want to rewrite. > > > The URL 'www.domain.com/' gives the JSON result > > > '{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"1.0.1"}' > > > and I want to rewrite it to a HTML welcome page. > > > Futon uses 'www.domain.com/' to check the Couchdb version and > therefore > > > the > > > rewrite will break Futon. > > > (Or am I wrong? Did anyone rewrite the domain root and still use > Futon?) > > > > > > > > > I did solve it in another way. I wrote one rewrite rule (nginx) for > port > > > 80, > > > like this: > > > > > > server { > > > server_name localhost www.domain.com domain.com; > > > listen [::]:80; > > > .... > > > location =/ { > > > rewrite ^ /db/_design/db/_show/show/home; > > > } > > > } > > > > > > and another rewrite rule for port 81 (without the rewrite for =/): > > > > > > server { > > > server_name localhost www.domain.com domain.com; > > > listen [::]:81; > > > .... > > > } > > > > > > This way if I go to 'www.domain.com:81/_utils' Futon is still working. > > > > > > > > > Hopefully this will help other people to have a welcome page on the > > domain > > > root and still use Futon. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Hendrik Jan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10 April 2011 01:02, Sean Copenhaver <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von > > Wittgenstein > > > -- “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von Wittgenstein
