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Subject: Serving Simple HTML page to Public IP from CouchDB
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:32:03 -0400
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I have a CouchDB running on a RPi behind a router. I've seen countless =
tutorials about "pretty urls", but no matter what I do I just cannot get =
this to work for my public IP. All I want to do is be able to serve a =
boring webpage to anyone that hits

http://my.pub.lic.ip:5984

But the only way I was able to do this is by putting the public IP under =
vhosts in the local.ini file. Doing so breaks the database and I can't =
access it in any way until I remove the line from the local.ini file and =
restart it. Trying to get at any part of the database results in:

{"error":"not_found","reason":"Document is missing attachment"}

Sure, I can set up something like 127.0.0.1<tab>couch to hook up to =
http://couch:5984 on the RPi. I can even load it from another machine, =
but I have to set my /etc/hosts on whatever machine I want to use to =
include my.pub.lic.ip<tab>couch. What if I want to allow anyone to =
access the page without having to hack their /etc/hosts file? How am I =
supposed to set this up?

I get the feeling that the only way to do this is to run something like =
ngix in front of the database with a reverse proxy, but I'm already =
killing an ant with a sledgehammer and I feel that there is just =
something I am overlooking here. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing =
wrong? Or walk me through how to get CouchDB to serve up a webpage to a =
public IP?=