[COUCHDB-472] handle custom CouchdDB welcome page

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.10
• Skill Level: New Contributors Level (Easy)
• Assignee: Benoit Chesneau
• Reporter: Benoit Chesneau
• Created: 18/Aug/09 13:19
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:26
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:26

Description

This change modify behaviour of Welcome handler by allowing admin to customize the welcome page. If content is "application/json" it will send current json object, if not, it will send an html page or redirect to another path.

This patch change the confugration string to a tupple

{WelcomeMsg, WelcomePage}

. WelcomePage could be a string for DocumentRoot where it will find welcome.html page or a tupple

{redirect, Url}

Ex if in config you have:
/ = {couch_httpd_misc_handlers, handle_welcome_req, {<<"Welcome">>, "/usr/local/share/couchdb/www"}}

If Accept content is application/json Couchdb will send :
"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0a"}

If other it will send welcome.html.

if you replace "/usr/local/share/couchdb/www" by

{redirect, <<"/_utils">>}

 user will be redirected on futon.

Issue Links

• is related to: COUCHDB-348 / should redirect to a human readable page when accessed from a browser
• is related to: COUCHDB-1954 Clarify Futon/Fauxton transition