diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6b454dbce74e05e7ffef421bd72e5b005961dc08..65dc4dfde5dc920bc4b53cf4f37403dfaacce7ec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
# Webapps Deliverer
-Flask based web server for delivering file contents of the vaclab web applications.
+Flask based web server for delivering file contents of the vaclab web
+applications. A proxy is also offered:
+
+A URL of the form
+
+```
+ http://127.0.0.1:8081/xxxx/vl_db/000_SERVERS
+```
+
+will be forwarded to the real CouchDB URL
+
+```
+ http://127.0.0.1:xxxx/vl_db/000_SERVERS
+```
## Installation of the server
@@ -19,7 +32,7 @@ then activates and starts the systemd process.
## Installation of the data files
-The target is this directory structure:
+The target has this directory structure:
```
/srv/www/data/
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index cddf73a60b43dae28e2bef67d4db7289868e780b..be8b86941eaed8adcb6ec658ff48490bd4a36743 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def couchdb_proxy(real_port, p=''):
q = request.query_string.decode();
path = p
if q:
- path = p + '?' + q
+ path = path + '?' + q
host = urlparse(request.base_url).hostname
scheme = urlparse(request.base_url).scheme
new_url = '{}://{}:{}/{}'.format(scheme, host, real_port, path)
@@ -72,6 +72,20 @@ def couchdb_proxy(real_port, p=''):
response = Response(resp.content, resp.status_code, headers)
return response
+@app.route('/')
+@app.route('/index.html')
+def home():
+ return '''<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+ <meta charset="UTF-8">
+ <title>Webapps Deliverer</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+ <h3>VacLab: Combined web and CouchDB proxy service</h3>Version: {}
+</body>
+</html>'''.format(VERSION)
+
@app.route('/version')
def version():
return VERSION + '\n'
diff --git a/webapps-deliverer.service b/webapps-deliverer.service
index 8b342cde034515c2bd17c4beb4a7685ad1db7dab..635611fc5dca0cd66f8163fb56b03fd913788059 100644
--- a/webapps-deliverer.service
+++ b/webapps-deliverer.service
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ After=network.target
User=nobody
Environment=FLASK_PORT=8081
Environment=DATA_PATH=/srv/www/data/
-Environment=FLASK_ENV=production
+Environment=FLASK_ENV=development
Environment=FLASK_DEBUG=1
Type=simple
StandardOutput=null