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CouchDB now natively supports SSL from version 1.1.0 and onwards.
To enable it;
1) Enable the httpsd daemon by adding the following line to your local.ini or local_dev.ini (newly generated files include this setting but commented out);
[daemons]
httpsd = {couch_httpd, start_link, [https]}2) tell CouchDB about your SSL server keys (PEM encoded);
[ssl] cert_file = /full/path/to/server_cert.pem key_file = /full/path/to/server_key.pem ;port = 6984
On windows, the path format needs to be one of the following:
fully specified windows path with slashes inverted, and spaces escaped: c:/program\ files/couchdb/etc/config/couchdb/<your.pem>
unix-style path, assuming that the root / will be the root of the drive that couchdb is installed to: /program\ files/couchdb/etc/config/couchdb/<your.pem>
relative path, to the %COUCH%/bin folder: ../etc/couchdb/<your.pem>
3) Restart CouchDB.
CouchDB should now accept SSL connections on, by default, port 6984.
Troubleshooting
To ensure that the issue is not with your certificates, use the test ones from MochiWeb, and test from the command line using
curl -k -v https://127.0.0.1:6984/
You can test your certificates separately using:
openssl s_server -key <keyfile> -cert <certfile> -www curl -k -v https://localhost:4433/