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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:22:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: rewrites not working
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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rewrites.json not rewrites.js

On 11 November 2013 00:03, Alexander Gabriel <alex@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