Allow external CouchDB servers for Fauxton proxy

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/fauxton/Gruntfile.js b/src/fauxton/Gruntfile.js
index 814279ae5..b76ae24e8 100644
--- a/src/fauxton/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/src/fauxton/Gruntfile.js
@@ -194,9 +194,14 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
       dist: './dist/debug/',
       port: 8000,
       proxy: {
-        host: 'localhost',
-        port: 5984,
-        https: false
+        target: {
+          host: 'localhost',
+          port: 5984,
+          https: false
+        },
+        // This sets the Host header in the proxy so that you can use external
+        // CouchDB instances and not have the Host set to 'localhost'
+        changeOrigin: true
       }
     },
 
diff --git a/src/fauxton/tasks/couchserver.js b/src/fauxton/tasks/couchserver.js
index a3f620ffc..576893b29 100644
--- a/src/fauxton/tasks/couchserver.js
+++ b/src/fauxton/tasks/couchserver.js
@@ -26,11 +26,13 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     var port = options.port || 8000;
 
     // Proxy options with default localhost
-    var proxy_target = options.proxy || {
-          host: 'localhost',
-          port: 5984,
-          https: false
-        };
+    var proxy_settings = options.proxy || {
+      target: {
+        host: 'localhost',
+        port: 5984,
+        https: false
+      }
+    };
 
     // inform grunt that this task is async
     var done = this.async();
@@ -46,9 +48,7 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     });
 
     // create proxy to couch for all couch requests
-    var proxy = new httpProxy.HttpProxy({ 
-      target: proxy_target
-    });
+    var proxy = new httpProxy.HttpProxy(proxy_settings);
 
     app.all('*', function (req, res) {
       proxy.proxyRequest(req, res);