Couchdb Failed to Fetch

[kovasap]

I've set up a couchdb with both http and https and can access it just fine from my web browser. However, the nomie app gives me "failed to fetch" errors with both addresses. Is there a way for the app to give me more info about why it is failing? I followed this doc: https://github.com/happydata/nomie-docs/blob/master/development/couchdb-setup.md, is it up to date?

Also for context #161 would be my ideal use case here, perhaps it makes more sense for me to help with that then pursue this? How hard would that feature request be to add?

[arooni]

same exact error here

[arooni]

well i was following the guide and when i was running

http://username:password@localhost:5984

brazil /opt/couchdb/etc: curl -X PUT $AUTHOST/_config/httpd/enable_cors -d '"true"'
{"error":"not_found","reason":"Database does not exist."}

[arooni]

also getting fail to fetch

[arooni]

i was able to make the changes directly to the couchdb local.ini file ; restarted couchdb ; see here:

https://gist.github.com/arooni/e0b3648043c954e1c8bd75dc3aadaf0a

however still getting the fail to fetch; it works fine from a web browser at home accessing http://username:passwored@myvpsip/nomie

has anyone gotten this working at all? would rather not spend any more time on it if no one has yet succeeded.

[arooni]

followed all instructions and enabled CORS from https://github.com/happydata/nomie-docs/blob/master/development/couchdb-setup.md

Also wanted to add that I saw nothing from the /var/log/couchdb/couchdb.log when tailing it

so it seems like the request isn't even being made to my VPS server. i double checked everything and it's all right.

[arooni]

got it working! key points:

1. use browser tools (dev tools in chrome) ; nomie seems to have very helpful debug messages printed out via js or at least chrome picks up on things.
2. set CORS on via couchdb
3. make sure you don't allow requests from all domains but rather just v5.nomie.app and nomie.app
4. i had to setup ssl to get it working. it didn't seem to want to sync over regular http (because perhaps nomie.app is only on served over ssl)
5. the couchdb folks on slack were helpful in getting things setup.

many thanks!

very happy to have multi device sync now :) :) :)

[arooni]

now; it seems like even though i've got it all working, and multiple devices were able to connect; and i selected "yes" to save the connection...

it seems like when i go back to settings, nomie has forgotten about the couchdb i've linked previously. and the size is of the couchdb database is 0 bytes.

[pallavi]

it seems like when i go back to settings, nomie has forgotten about the couchdb i've linked previously. and the size is of the couchdb database is 0 bytes.

@arooni i was running into this too and had to manually save the couchdb details in localstorage. i think there is a bug (described by @bjafl in #165) where nomie immediately overwrites the db details in localStorage right after they get saved.