CouchDB replication unauthorized error

[billoty]

Description

Passing through the introduction in docs and some problems with authorization occurs.

{"error":"unauthorized","reason":"unauthorized to access or create database http://127.0.0.1:5984/albums/"}

Steps to Reproduce

In chapter 1.7.4 execute the post request:

curl -vX POST http://admin:password@127.0.0.1:5984/_replicate \
     -d '{"source":"http://127.0.0.1:5984/albums","target":"http://127.0.0.1:5984/albums-replica"}' \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

after creating a target database.

Expected Behaviour

CouchDB returns JSON with

"ok": true

Your Environment

• CouchDB version used: 3.2.2
• Browser name and version: curl 7.68.0
• Operating system and version: Ubuntu 20.04.3

[nickva]

Thanks for your report @billoty. It seems that section of the documentation hasn't been updated since we switched to requiring an admin password to be set up by default. Try to add admin:password for the source and target endpoint url and it should work.

[ryuusama09]

hi @nickva , I would like to work on this issue if it is still open

[nickva]

@ryuusama09 thanks for wanting to take a look!

The main task would be to go through the replication (and possibly other docs) in the src/docs folder and see if there are any tutorial URL links without a username and password, and update them to have a user name and password like adm:pass, admin:password or similar.