Changes and rewites

[abarysiuk]

I found that feed.db = 'http://myvhost.com/alias_db' won't work, where:
myvhost.com = real_host/real_db/_design/app/_rewrite/

rewrite
{
"from": "/alias_db/",
"to": "../../*"
}

It simply hangs and print nothing. I'm able to get result via feed.db = real_host/real_db. Also i'm able to get changes set via 'curl http://myvhost.com/alias_db/_changes'.

[Jason Smith]

Very interesting. I think Follow will try to confirm the database first, so perhaps it is failing there. Do you have any 4xx or 5xx messages in your server log?

[abarysiuk]

Good point about the logs! I think i found the problem. So rewrite

{
    "from": "/alias_db/",
    "to": "../../*"
}

cause 'curl http://myvhost.com/alias_db' return information about real db, like:

{"db_name":"real_db"  ...

But 'curl http://myvhost.com/alias_db/_changes' doesn't work - rewire is translated into /real_db/_design/app/alias_db/_changes = 404

Changing rewrite to:

{
    "from": "/alias_db/*",  <- * symbol at the end
    "to": "../../*"
}

cause 'curl http://myvhost.com/alias_db' return:

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

and Follow throws error:

[Error: Bad DB response: {"error":"not_found","reason":"Document is missing attachment"}]

I don't know yet how to write such rewrite that will handle both cases well /