Connecting to a remote mongoDB server - mongodb

Question

I have a remote machine which I connect to using SSH, I installed mongoDB on it, and I wish to use it remotely, how do I connect to it using nodejs and mongoDB compass? the localhost is the IP ?
const db = "mongodb://what do I write here?";
const connectDB = async () => {
try {
await mongoose.connect(db, { useNewUrlParser: true, useCreateIndex: true });
console.log("MongoDB Connected...");
} catch (err) {
console.error(err.message);
process.exit(1);
}
};
connectDB();

Answer 1

Short answer
Login to your machine, open mongodb configuration file located at /etc/mongod.conf and change the bindIp field to your machine ip address (it is the same ip address which you are using to ssh to your machine), after that restart mongodb server.
Detailed answer
Open /etc/mongod.conf file using any of the editor, if you are running a desktop version then you can make use of gedit utility tool
sudo gedit /etc/mongod.conf
If you are running a server version, then you can make use of vi editor command
sudo vi /etc/mongod.conf
The file should contain the following kind of content:
systemLog:
destination: file
path: "/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log"
logAppend: true
storage:
journal:
enabled: true
processManagement:
fork: true
net:
bindIp: 127.0.0.1 // enter your ip address here
port: 27017
setParameter:
enableLocalhostAuthBypass: false
Once you change the bindIp, then you have to restart the mongodb, using the following command
sudo service mongod restart
Now you'll be able to connect to the mongodb server, with the same ip address which you are using to ssh to your system.
mongoose.connect('mongodb://<machine_ip_address>:27017/<database_name>')

Answer 2

mongoose.connect('mongodb://username:password#host:port/database')
Now for the host, is there any hostname or IP you could use?

Answer 3

Try this one:
mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost/<database-name>", { useNewUrlParser: true });
const db = mongoose.connection
db.on('error', (error) => console.error(error));
db.once('open', () => console.log('Connected to Database'));
Make sure to run MongoDB
mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

Answer 4

first try this : mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/database')
mongoose.connect('mongodb://<machine_ip_address>:27017/<database_name>')
mongodb://[username:password#]host1[:port1][,...hostN[:portN]][/[database][?options]]
check https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/connection-string/

Answer 5

If you are using MongoDb Compass
Open 27017 port in Inbound of your Server
Form a link just like mongodb://11.11.111.11 in case you are not going to use auth
Click Connect
Basicly the link is mongodb://[username:password#]host1[:port1][,...hostN[:portN]][/[defaultauthdb][?options]]
More information here