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Subject: Re: Replication error using basic authentication on nginx
From: Daniel Truemper <truemped@googlemail.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:49:00 +0200
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To: user@couchdb.apache.org

Hi,

=46rom the gist I see that you have enabled basic authentication inside =
nginx. Why so? Try do disable it and only use the CouchDB =
authentication.

In the "http response of replication" the 401 is from nginx not CouchDB. =
So maybe it gets mixed up somewhere...

Daniel

> Hi,
>=20
> I have been trying to figure out quite for a while why I cannot do
> "pull replication using nginx basic authentication on the source
> system.
> I simply do not know what I am doing wrong nor why couchdb fails
> replicating giving a not authorized error considering I can
> successfully do a put request to a design doc.
> I tried replication both in futon as on console but no chance to get =
it work :-(
>=20
> I have put a public gist at: http://gist.github.com/518113
> which shows a couchdb log for the corresponding "pull replication, a
> couchdb log for a put request to a design doc, the replication http
> response, my complete nginx.conf file and my iptables. Both systems
> use Ubuntu 10.04 and Couchdb 0.11.1.
>=20
> As I use the same credentials for both the basic authentication in
> nginx and couchdb the put request to a design doc succeeds - why
> doesn't the replication?
>=20
> Can anyone explain the logic of the couchdb replication log?
> Why is there a 404 response?
> Why are there a 301 response?
>=20
> I really got stuck with that and need to find any suitable solution to
> use couchdb without admin party mode.
>=20
> Any hint is highly appreciated!