Hi,

I couldn't get CouchDB to run successfully under nginx when
I tried a few weeks back. The final break was that nginx will
always decode %2f to / in URLs even if you don't want it.

I didn't check if it was fixed in dev-versions of nginx, but this
was a deal breaker for me.


Cheers
Jan
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On 19 Apr 2009, at 08:23, deepj wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use CouchDB under nginx reverse proxy and its behavior  
> is very strange. When I ran the test suite it started to use 100 %  
> for any time. If I don't use nginx reverse proxy and I run the test  
> suite CouchDB doesn't use 100 %. Everything seems to be OK. :(
>
> Only one test fails:
> uuids -> Assertion failed: currentTime - dateHeader < 3000
> (Don't you know where the issue is? This test is test success on  
> local)
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit)
> Erlang 5.6.5
> Nginx 0.6.36
>
> CouchDB configuration is default.
>
> I think the issue is not in nginx but here is my nginx configuration:
> Domain configuration is the following:
>
> server {
>   listen      80;
>   server_name couchdb.example.eu;
>
>   location / {
>     proxy_pass        http://localhost:5984;
>     proxy_redirect    off;
>     proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
>     proxy_set_header  Host  $host;
>     proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>   }
> }
>
> Main nginx configuration  is the following:
> worker_processes 2;
>
> pid /usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid;
>
> events {
>    worker_connections  2048;
> }
>
> http {
>    passenger_root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-2.2.1;
>    passenger_ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby;
>
>    include       mime.types;
>    default_type  application/octet-stream;
>
>    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  
> $request '
>                      '"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
>
>    access_log  /usr/local/var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
>
>    sendfile       on;
>
>    tcp_nopush     on;
>    tcp_nodelay    on;
>
>    #keepalive_timeout  0;
>    keepalive_timeout  65;
>
>    #gzip  on;
>
>    include /etc/nginx/*.conf;
> }
>