Unable to connect to mongodb on remote server - mongodb

Question

I have a spring boot application with a mongo database on localhost and everything work fine.
Now i want to deploy my application to my server and the database is on another remote server.
I changed mongod.conf file and uncommented “bindIp: 0.0.0.0 #default value is 127.0.0.1”
In my application.properties file i have this:
“spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://172.16.4.26:27017/jenkinsdb”
When i run my application i get “com.mongodb.MongoSocketOpenException: Exception opening socket” caused by “Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out”

Answer 1

It seems like MongoDB is not accessible over a network there might be several reasons. I have listed some:
MongoDB port 27017 is not open
Firewall is blocking the connection with another machine
You can also try adding the authentication information in your URI like this:
spring.data.mongodb.uri=mongodb://user:secret#mongo1.example.com:12345,mongo2.example.com:23456/test
OR
you can split it over multiple properties
spring.data.mongodb.host=mongoserver.example.com
spring.data.mongodb.port=27017
spring.data.mongodb.database=test
spring.data.mongodb.username=user
spring.data.mongodb.password=secret
If you want to check whether there is a problem with the application or MongoDB you can spin up the free Mongo Atlas instance and try to connect that with your application if that works then there will be surely a connectivity issue with our machine