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It is possible to disable the existing HTTP layer completely, so only allowing HTTPS access - albeit not cleanly, by amending /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini [daemons ]  section accordingly:```

[daemons]

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; find the following line and prepend a ; to comment it out
;httpd={couch_httpd, start_link, []}

```

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Currently it is not possible to disable it in the more common /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini [daemons ]  file.

Accessing and Verifying SSL

By default, CouchDB uses port 6984 for HTTPS. If our server lives locally, we can verify SSL works properly by accessing this URL:

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