Accessing CouchDB Admin Without Exposing It To A Public Port

23 Sep

I’m running couchdb on EC2, but I don’t neccessarily want to expose the port it runs on (5984 by default) to a public IP address. But, I want to be able to access the luxurious Futon admin system – so what are my options?

Turns out, there’s a simple solution – run an SSH tunnel to the ec2 server:

$ ssh -L 5498:localhost:5984 [mylogin]@[some-ec2-instance.com]

When you access your local port 5984, i.e. http://localhost:5984/_utils, you’re actually tunneling to your EC2 instance. Now, you can run the couchdb server safely and still enjoy the Futon admin!

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Author britg

gochi

Yes great tip thanks.

Jan

Correct, good thinking, too. It is even an FaQ :-)

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/FrequentlyAskedQ...

Cheers
Jan
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