It doesn't appear anything has happened yet on the new futon you pointed me to.
I'm going to go ahead for the normal vain reasons. I want to learn new tools and I want to have one that works exactly the way I want it to work. Also i think plowing ahead without waiting for committee consensus would be good (excuse my arrogance). Thanks for the links to the magic pixie dust. I hope it doesn't require erlang. If it does I can use the long url for now. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 November 2012 01:41, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've just started working on a futon replacement called "ftn" ( > > https://github.com/mark-hahn/ftn). It is a couch app built with kanso. > I > > need to start my app by referencing a design doc like _design/ftn and > then > > inside my app make ajax calls to a different db. > > > > Right now I have to start the app with something like > > http://domain:5984/ftn/_design/ftn/idx.htm. I obviously would like to > use > > the vhost and rewrite feature to start the app with something shorter. I > > can't figure out how to do this because any ajax call in my app for a > > different db would also be sent to my ftn db due to the vhost. > > > > Can someone figure out how I can use a short url instead of > > http://domain:5984/ftn/_design/ftn/idx.htm? > > > > > Looks like some nice work Mark. Please check over on dev@ there's already > some work going on in this vein, we'd love to see you contribute there! > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201210.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201210.mbox/%3CCAFUSCh-en-K44NBmy=wyvjgkwgka_nepb6zcc_v5_2_fsa0...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > P.S. How does futon get away with a URL with just the path _utils? Can > I > > do this with something like _ftn and have it fire up my couch app? > > > > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/etc/couchdb/default.ini.tpl.in#L124is > the magic pixie dust. Either point towards the filesystem or take a > read > of http://davispj.com/2010/09/26/new-couchdb-externals-api.html and see if > you can use that to proxy directly to a couchapp. I think Ryan has a fix > for this as well? > > A+ > Dave >
