Jun 12 2012
Reverse Proxy in Apache2 (Ubuntu 10.04) for CouchDB
Installing Modules
There are various sites with instructions that did not work.
However, following the instructions here> http://abhirama.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/apache-mod_proxy-in-ubuntu/ did the trick.
The reverse proxy module was installed:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-proxy-htm
Libxml was installed:
apt-get install libxml2-dev
Edit apache2.conf
The following was added to the apache2.conf file:
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so LoadModule headers_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.so
VirtualHost config
Finally, below is the VirtualHost config I personally used based on advice from http://bennolan.com/2011/01/10/couchdb-behind-apache.html in order to get CouchDB to work correctly.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers Content-Type Header set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, PUT, OPTIONS, DELETE, POST" Header set Access-Control-Max-Age 3600 DocumentRoot /var/www ProxyPass / http://localhost:5984/ nocanon ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:5984/ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> </VirtualHost>
