CouchDB proxy? Apache As a Reverse Proxy?

Question

Hi there,

I have VM (Ubuntu 10.04, Apache, CouchDB 1.0, ...) with public ip address.

• Is it possible to access CouchDB (mainly Futon) from public ip address (i.e. 187.323.132.232:5984), not from http://localhost:5984?
• Or on my local machine, set up an ssh tunnel?

Answer 1

Hi.

• Yes, go to the Futon Configuration and set bind_address in the http section to 0.0.0.0

• Alternatively, you can use SSH also. The basic idea is to forward from your local machine to the remote CouchDB:

  ssh -L 5984:localhost:5984 remoteuser@remotemachine
  

  Now you can access Futon via http://localhost:5984/ from the local machine.

Good luck!