I had some trouble explaining my question in short for the title, so here the full explanation.
I'm exploring couchDB for a schoolproject and have come across a probably small issue. On the server I'm able to retrieve a file from http://localhost:5984/bibliography/c452b83c3a3dd1ce5b13f18b37000aa3/3567149.pdf I created a link to this using a button:.
<a style="text-align:left" href="http://localhost:5984/bibliography/c452b83c3a3dd1ce5b13f18b37000aa3/3567149.pdf" target="_blank" class="btn btn-default">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-file"></span>
3567149.pdf
</a>
This was no problem whilst I was running the application on my local machine, but this doesn't work on my VPS, since this port is not accessible from the outside.
I think my best option would be to retrieve the file using php, and then prompt the user to download it. But I can't find out how to do this.