cloudant-and-cis.md

copyright	lastupdated	keywords	subcollection
years 2019, 2020	2020-06-24	Cloudant database, CORS, cross-origin resource sharing, host header	cis

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Accessing your Cloudant database through {{site.data.keyword.cis_short_notm}}

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Before you begin

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These instructions assume that you already added a domain to {{site.data.keyword.cis_short_notm}} as outlined in the Getting started page.

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.