On 18 Feb 2010, at 15:30, Noah Slater wrote: > What happens when the Host header is absent? Does it default to the first one > in the file, like Apache httpd?
The default case (when there is no Host header (HTTP 1.0) or the host header doesn't match any vhost) is to act as if the bind-address + port were called, just like before. Cheers Jan -- > > On 18 Feb 2010, at 23:23, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > >> Hi dev@, >> >> I added virtual host handling to CouchDB. I have a Github branch for you to >> check out: >> >> http://github.com/janl/couchdb/commits/vhosts >> >> Alternatively, here's a full diff including etap tests: >> >> http://www.friendpaste.com/6B5dQU1fb27boOvxhm2nhf >> >> From local.ini: >> >> ; To enable Virtual Hosts in CouchDB, add a vhost = path directive. All >> requests to >> ; the Virual Host will be redirected to the path. In the example below all >> requests >> ; to http://example.com/ are redirected to /database. >> ; If you run CouchDB on a specific port, include the port number in the >> vhost: >> ; example.com:5984 = /database >> >> [vhosts] >> ;example.com = /database/ >> >> In combination with Benoit's rewriter, this allows you to create virtual >> hosts with >> really pretty URLs. >> >> The CouchDB default behaviour isn't changed. CouchDB simply inspects a >> request's `Host:` header and maps it against any defined virtual hosts. If a >> match is found, CouchDB will make an internal redirect much like the >> rewriter. >> >> I did a stupid A/B test with Apache Bench and couldn't see any performance >> degradation. Feel free to prove me wrong :) >> >> I'd like to commit this to trunk and also backport to 0.11. What do you >> think? >> >> Thanks for you feedback. >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> >
