Try using a url for the "target" value, I think what's happening here is that couchdb has made an unsharded database (if you see your database on localhost:5986/mydb that confirms it).
B. > On 5 Feb 2017, at 13:12, Stephan Wissel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I used curl to replicate a database to Couch2 on a Mac posting this payload > to localhost... : > { > "target": "mydb", > "source": { > "url": "https://someserver/mydb"; > }, > "connection_timeout": 60000, > "user_ctx": { > "name": "stw", > "roles": ["_admin"] > }, > "create_target" : true > } > > Worked like a charm.... except the database doesn't show up in Fauxton and > can't be addressed from a URL. I tried again without create_target and it > replicates without an error - so database exists. > > I checked: the database file mydb.couch got created in > ~/Library/Application Support/CouchDB2/var/lib/couchdb but nothing in the > shards directory > > When I use Fauxton to create a database manually (e.g. otherdb), the file > shows up in > ~/Library/Application Support/CouchDB2/var/lib/couchdb/shards/[shardnumber] > but not the couchdb directory. Also when I swap mydb with otherdb and try > to replicate (without create_target=true) I get the error "Database not > found". > > What do I miss here? > -- > Mobile message, pegged on glass. > > Best regards > Stephan H. Wissel > http://www.wissel.net/
