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Accessing your Cloudant database through CIS

Accessing your Cloudant database through CIS

Follow these steps to access your Cloudant database through IBM Cloud® Internet Services (CIS).

Before you begin

These instructions assume that you already added a domain to CIS as outlined in the Getting started page.

Step 1: Add your CIS domain to the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

  • Navigate to your Cloudant database and open the Account > CORS page.
  • Add your CIS domain to the origin domains input field. For example, https://cloudant.test.foo.com.

Step 2. Configure CIS to point to your Cloudant database

  • Navigate to the CIS dashboard and create a load balancer or DNS record that points to your Cloudant database hostname. For example, https://cloudant.test.foo.com -> 111-222-333-444-555-test.cloudant.com.
  • Enable proxy for the DNS record or load balancer.

Step 3. Create a page rule to set the Host Header Override

  • In the CIS dashboard, navigate to Performance > Page rules.
  • Create a page rule for the URL that you want, for example, https://cloudant.test.foo.com/*.
  • Select the Rule Behavior setting Host Header Override.
  • Set as the Cloudant database hostname, for example, 111-222-333-444-555-test.cloudant.com.

To learn more about Cloudant, see the Cloudant documentation.