On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Yves Serrano <y...@yas.ch> wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm new to couchdb and it makes fun to play with it :-).
> I using vhost and rewrites to get nice urls. I also have defined some static
> html via
> ...
> [httpd_global_handlers]
> static = {couch_httpd_misc_handlers, handle_utils_dir_req, "/path/to/static"}
> ...
>
> My problem is that I can't get access to http://127.0.0.1:5984/static from my
> vhost http://couchdb.local/static.
> I get into a 301 redirect loop, which stops after to much recursion.
>
> I tried this rewrite rule:
> {
> "from": "/static/*",
> "to": "../../../static/*"
> },
>
> // my vhost setup
> [vhosts]
> cochdb.local:5984 = /mydb/_design/mydb/_rewrite/
>
> I needed to set secure_rewrites to false, otherwise I get the error:
> "insecure_rewrite_rule". Is there a better way?
>
> I'm using couchdb 1.0.2. I want to archive this without any other http server
> like apache to keep it simple.
> What I'm doing wrong? Is this possible with couchdb 1.0.2? If not, will it be
> possible with couchdb 1.1.0?
>
> regards
> yves
>
>
Use _static instead of static for the name and put _static in
vhost_global_handlers then you should be abble to access it at
cochdb.local:5984/_static .
- benoît
