lol o.k., side issue is solved: the rewrites.json file is copied as an object into the design doc. thanks a lot.
Remains the fact that the url is not rewritten. Any Ideas for that? Alex 2013/11/11 Stanley Iriele <siriele...@gmail.com> > This gets me every time when I'm doing rewrites but a convenient way to > look it is...its a giant json object so....json extension > On Nov 10, 2013 4:22 PM, "Robert Newson" <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > > > rewrites.json not rewrites.js > > > > On 11 November 2013 00:03, Alexander Gabriel <a...@barbalex.ch> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have a couchapp on http://arteigenschaften.ch. > > > It's built with the original python couchapp tool. > > > > > > My goal: > > > Instead of > > > "http://arteigenschaften.ch/artendb/_design/artendb/index.html"; > > > the url should look like: > > > "http://arteigenschaften.ch/index.html< > > http://arteigenschaften.ch/artendb/_design/artendb/index.html> > > > " > > > > > > In local.ini I have: > > > [vhosts] > > > arteigenschaften.ch:5984 = /artendb/_design/artendb/_rewrite > > > After uploading the local.ini file I do: "service couchdb restart" to > > apply > > > it. > > > > > > In my project root I have a file "rewrites.js" with this rule: > > > [ > > > { > > > "method": "*", > > > "from": "/artendb/_design/artendb", > > > "to": "" > > > } > > > ] > > > > > > This is copied into the design document by the couchapp tool. > > > > > > What am I missing to make it work? > > > > > > > > > > > > ***************** > > > Side issue: > > > > > > What seems rather odd to me is that the rewrites rules are copied not > as > > > clean json but as a string: > > > > > > "rewrites": "[\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t\"method\": \"*\",\r\n\t\t\"from\": > > > \"/artendb/_design/artendb\",\r\n\t\t\"to\": \"\"\r\n\t}\r\n]" > > > > > > > > > I once got an error in the frontend saying that rewrites should be json > > not > > > text but weird enough this message has not reappeared. > > > > > > Anyway, I have changed the rewrites rule in the design document in > futon > > to: > > > > > > "rewrites": [ > > > { > > > "method": "*", > > > "from": "/artendb/_design/artendb", > > > "to": "" > > > } > > > ], > > > > > > > > > This is nicer but - sigh - doesn't work either. > > > > > > > > > Thanks for help. > > > > > > Alex > > >
