I have Windows 10 machine where MongoDB is installed. I can connect it from a command line. I run NodeJS app with sam local. When I use a production environment, the app can access Mongo Atlas cloud instance. But when I switch to a dev environment with localhost MongoDB it fails to connect.
The sam command starts Docker so it is clear why it cannot connect Mongo running on windows localhost. I found relevant question: From inside of a Docker container, how do I connect to the localhost of the machine?. The problem is that I still cannot connect my local MongoDB, even if I try:
"MONGODB_URI": "mongodb://docker.for.win.localhost:27018/bud?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
or
"MONGODB_URI": "mongodb://host.docker.internal:27018/bud?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
Error:
Request failed { MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [docker.for.win.localhost:27018] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.65.2:27018]
Has anybody faced this issue as well and overcome it? Mongo is installed directly to windows, not in Docker.
If MongoDB is installed and running directly from windows, it should be accessible via localhost:27017. Default port for mongod is 27017, as described in mongoDB documentation page.
Try using:
"MONGODB_URI": "mongodb://localhost:27017/bud?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
If you are using NETWORKS_DRIVER other than bridge for your NodeJS docker container, which is set by default. Refer to Docker Network drivers
Other cases:
The default port for mongod is 27018 when running with --shardsvr command-line option or the shardsvr value for the clusterRole setting in a configuration file.
The default port for mongod is 27019 when running with --configsvr command-line option or the configsvr value for the clusterRole setting in a configuration file.
Remember, that localhost (or any name) is just for your convinience. Tcp stack works on ip addresses. If you configure dns service (e.g. via hosts file) to resolve name to 127.0.0.1 for container it doesn't mean your host, but 127.0.0.1 points to the container, always.
You could make mongo service to listen on your main ip and use it for docker app, but you can also leverage hyper-v virtual network cards and setup mongo to listen not only on host's loopback interface, but also on the virtual one and give docker app ip of that interface. It remains on your virtual lan, therefore it's not exposed to public. However, windows firewall might block it, so make sure you set it up as private network (it will be marked as unidentified and by default is public, which usually has stuff blocked).
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I have a mongo on my host machine, and an ubuntu container which is also running on my machine. I want that container to connect to mongo.
I set as host url, my host ip from docker network : 172.17.0.1
and in the /etc/mongod.conf file I set the bindIp to 0.0.0.0
from the container, I can ping the host,but the mongo service is not accessible, I get that error :
Connecting to: mongodb://172.17.0.1:27017/directConnection=true&appName=mongosh+1.5.0
MongoServerSelectionError: connection timed out
More over, I can connect from host to the mongo service with that command :
mongosh mongodb://172.17.0.1:27017
Do you know why I can't access mongo service from my container ?
You can use host.docker.internal as reference to your host machine from the container. So mongo host.docker.internal:27017 should work.
From docker documentation:
I want to connect from a container to a service on the host
The host has a changing IP address (or none if you have no network access). We recommend that you connect to the special DNS name host.docker.internal which resolves to the internal IP address used by the host. This is for development purpose and does not work in a production environment outside of Docker Desktop.
On your local machine that has Mongo service is running, you can access by Mongo client because you expose the service at 127.0.0.1:27017.
However, it is not true if standing from your unbuntu container, there is no Mongo service is running at 172.0.0.1:27017 of the ubuntu container.
Docker-compose is the right tool for you to make containers communication to each other.
I've successfully installed MongoDB on Windows (on a local machine) as a service, but now I want to move MongoDb to a separate server. So I extracted the tarball to a virtual server on network (running linux).
When I connected to the server ("testmongoserver") using PuTTY from my local machine, I started the mongod server and it told me that it was listening to the default 28017 port. The mongo console is also working and allowed me to create a new database (testdb) and add users to it.
However, I could not access the server from remote. When I type testmongoserver:28017 it doesn't open the HTTP console as localhost:28017 on my local machine does. I also can't connect using official drivers and providing a connectionstring.
What are the neccesarry steps to install MongoDB on Linux, so that I could access it from a remote machine with a connectionstring and use its HTTP console via testmongoserver:28017
Thanks!
1. Bind IP option
Bind IP is a MongoDB option that restricts connections to specifics IPs.
Have a look at your mongod configuration file, most of the time bind_ip is set to 127.0.0.1 for obvious security reasons. You can:
Add your desired IP by concatenating a list of comma separated values to bind MongoDB to multiple IP addresses.
Remove or comment (with # character) the bind_ip line. But be aware that all remote connection will be able to connect your MongoDB server!
More about bind_ip configuration option: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/configuration-options/#net.bindIp
Bind IP can also be set as a command argument: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongod/#cmdoption--bind_ip
2. Firewall
Check that you are not running behind a firewall
Make sure in your /etc/mongodb.conf file you have the following line,
bind_ip = 0.0.0.0
http://jitu-blog.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/allow-mongo-to-connect-from-remote-ip.html
Run netstat -a on mongo server and check a port.
Check DNS settings and check that linux server allows external connections.
Check that mongodb can accept external/remote connection.
Default port for mongo is 27017.
28017 - port for webstats.
See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Security+and+Authentication#SecurityandAuthentication-Ports
Just had this issue and this fixed it:
Edit /etc/mongod.conf with sudo nano /etc/mongod.conf ensure that the net section looks like below (localhost binding by default doesn't allow for remote access):
# network interfaces
net:
port: 27017
bindIp: 0.0.0.0
Make sure to restart mongod when you are done with above with below (assuming systemd ubuntu 16.04+ etc.):
sudo service mongod restart
Obviously from a security perspective if you are going to be opening up mongo to your network/the world be aware of the implications of this (if any)
Another problem may be that the mongodb port is not enabled. Check, from another host, the ports enabled on your server. For that you can use the command:
sudo nmap -P0 your_server_ip
You can get an answer like this:
Host is up (0.052s latency).
Not shown: 997 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
If you use a virtual server in the cloud, as AWS, you need to add a new rule to add mongodb port (27017 by default).
Important: Note that with this configuration anyone can have access to your database
I fixed by below reference :
https://medium.com/founding-ithaka/setting-up-and-connecting-to-a-remote-mongodb-database-5df754a4da89
Actually, first i changed my bindIp from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 in mongod.conf,
and enable security:
security:
authorization: "enabled"
then i restarted mongod using sudo service mongod restart.(because of new changes in mongod.conf), after that set firewall to open mongod running port (by iptables) and create a new user in admin db with new access (based on this link : https://medium.com/mongoaudit/how-to-enable-authentication-on-mongodb-b9e8a924efac), finally test open ports in my server from outside with (https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/) and connected successfully to remote mongod using mongocompass.exe.
I've successfully installed MongoDB on Windows (on a local machine) as a service, but now I want to move MongoDb to a separate server. So I extracted the tarball to a virtual server on network (running linux).
When I connected to the server ("testmongoserver") using PuTTY from my local machine, I started the mongod server and it told me that it was listening to the default 28017 port. The mongo console is also working and allowed me to create a new database (testdb) and add users to it.
However, I could not access the server from remote. When I type testmongoserver:28017 it doesn't open the HTTP console as localhost:28017 on my local machine does. I also can't connect using official drivers and providing a connectionstring.
What are the neccesarry steps to install MongoDB on Linux, so that I could access it from a remote machine with a connectionstring and use its HTTP console via testmongoserver:28017
Thanks!
1. Bind IP option
Bind IP is a MongoDB option that restricts connections to specifics IPs.
Have a look at your mongod configuration file, most of the time bind_ip is set to 127.0.0.1 for obvious security reasons. You can:
Add your desired IP by concatenating a list of comma separated values to bind MongoDB to multiple IP addresses.
Remove or comment (with # character) the bind_ip line. But be aware that all remote connection will be able to connect your MongoDB server!
More about bind_ip configuration option: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/configuration-options/#net.bindIp
Bind IP can also be set as a command argument: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/program/mongod/#cmdoption--bind_ip
2. Firewall
Check that you are not running behind a firewall
Make sure in your /etc/mongodb.conf file you have the following line,
bind_ip = 0.0.0.0
http://jitu-blog.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/allow-mongo-to-connect-from-remote-ip.html
Run netstat -a on mongo server and check a port.
Check DNS settings and check that linux server allows external connections.
Check that mongodb can accept external/remote connection.
Default port for mongo is 27017.
28017 - port for webstats.
See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Security+and+Authentication#SecurityandAuthentication-Ports
Just had this issue and this fixed it:
Edit /etc/mongod.conf with sudo nano /etc/mongod.conf ensure that the net section looks like below (localhost binding by default doesn't allow for remote access):
# network interfaces
net:
port: 27017
bindIp: 0.0.0.0
Make sure to restart mongod when you are done with above with below (assuming systemd ubuntu 16.04+ etc.):
sudo service mongod restart
Obviously from a security perspective if you are going to be opening up mongo to your network/the world be aware of the implications of this (if any)
Another problem may be that the mongodb port is not enabled. Check, from another host, the ports enabled on your server. For that you can use the command:
sudo nmap -P0 your_server_ip
You can get an answer like this:
Host is up (0.052s latency).
Not shown: 997 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
If you use a virtual server in the cloud, as AWS, you need to add a new rule to add mongodb port (27017 by default).
Important: Note that with this configuration anyone can have access to your database
I fixed by below reference :
https://medium.com/founding-ithaka/setting-up-and-connecting-to-a-remote-mongodb-database-5df754a4da89
Actually, first i changed my bindIp from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 in mongod.conf,
and enable security:
security:
authorization: "enabled"
then i restarted mongod using sudo service mongod restart.(because of new changes in mongod.conf), after that set firewall to open mongod running port (by iptables) and create a new user in admin db with new access (based on this link : https://medium.com/mongoaudit/how-to-enable-authentication-on-mongodb-b9e8a924efac), finally test open ports in my server from outside with (https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/) and connected successfully to remote mongod using mongocompass.exe.
I'm running a NodeJS App with docker-compose. Everything works fine and I can see all my data by connecting to Mongo inside container. But when I connect to RoboMongo I don't see any data.
How can I deal with this problem?
There is another way. You can
SSH with Robomongo into your actual virtual server that hosts your docker applications (SSH tab, check "Use SSH tunnel" and complete the other fields accordingly)
Now ssh into the same machine in your terminal.
docker ps should show you your MongoDB container.
docker inspect <mongo container id> will print out complete information about that container. Look for IPAddress in the end, that will give you the local IP of the container.
In the "Connection" tab in Robomongo use that container IP to connect.
Another sidenote: Make sure that you don't expose your mongodb service ports in any way (neither Dockerfile nor docker-compose.yml), cause that will make your database openly accessible from everywhere. Assuming that you don't have set up a username / password for that service you will be scanned and hacked soon.
The easiest way is to enable forwarding the Mongo Container itself, here's how my docker-compose looks like.
mongo:
image: mongo
restart: always
ports:
- 27017:27017
You should do a Robomongo SSH tunnel connection to MongoDB inside docker container. First of all you should install a ssh server inside your docker container.
https://docs.docker.com/engine/examples/running_ssh_service/
After that you should configure your connection in Robomongo.
Inside "Connection Settings" there are configuration tabs of your Robomongo Connection.
Go to "SSH" Tab and configure your SSH connection to the docker container. After that go to "Connection" Tab and configure your connection to MongoDB as if it was in localhost scope.
I was facing a different problem. I had installed MongoDB locally. So, when the MongoDB on docker was running, it was clashing with the one running on my host. I had installed it using brew.
So, I ran
brew services stop mongodb-community
and then I restarted Robo3t. I saw the databases created in the MongoDB running on the docker.
Voila!
Please note that maybe you won't be able to use ssh because it was just a problem of incompatibility between mongo and robomongo.
'Robomongo v8.5 and lower doesn't support MongoDB 3'. It has nothing to do with docker.
First log in with ssh Login details
ssh -i yourpemfile.pem username#ipaddress
Check running container id for MongoDB
docker ps -a
then check the mongo container id
docker inspect container_id
Then open robo3t
create new connection and add container id
use ssh login details to connect to mongodb
In your docker-compose file, you can expose a port to the host.
For example, the following code will expose port 27017 inside the machine to the port 27018 in the host.
app:
image: node
volumes:
- /app
ports:
- "27018:27017"
Then, if you have docker-machine installed and your machine is default, you can do in a terminal :
docker-machine ip default
It will give you the ip of your host, for example 192.168.2.3. The address of your database (host) will be 192.168.2.3 and the port 27018.
If your docker machine is not virtual and is your OS, the address of your database will be localhost and the port 27018.
I'm trying to install MongoDB on my Ubuntu 11.04 AMI in Amazon EC2.
I allowed 27017 port in security option.
The problem is that I can use "mongo OTHER IP ADDRESS" to access to other mongoDB.
But simply "mongo" does not simply give me access to localhost mongoDB.
mongoDB shell shows like it is about to work but it stops at
MongoDB shell version: 1.8.3
connecting to: test
If it is truly connected, it should give me ">" but it doesn't and freezes.
I couldn't find answer on freezing problem by googling myself.
Also any tips on running mongoDB as daemon or running in background?
Be sure to use 0.0.0.0 as the IP in the security group. This will include your public IP and localhost IP. If this is not the issue, try this for debugging.
See what interface or IP range mongo is listening on:
netstat -pan | grep mongod
I imagine that it's listening on your public IP address (OTHER IP ADDRESS as you call it). If this is the case, try starting mongod without bind_ip. If you didn't specify the bind_ip argument then it's probably something related to EC2.
Another test:
Try telnet localhost 27017 (hit Ctrl-], type quit to quit). This should also fail because this is the same thing the mongo client is doing.