A Meteor server code uses Accounts-ui package gets started like this:
appDir$ MONGO_URL=mongodb://username:password#cloud-host-url meteor
After creating the account, the user document fails to show up in the mongodb on the cloud-host but shows up in the local mongodb copy.
How can I correctly use the cloud mongodb?
I think the problem is how you set your MONGO_URL, try this in your CLI:
export MONGO_URL=mongodb://username:password#mongo_link && meteor
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I have an app deployed on digital ocean and am trying to perform a meteor reset to reset the DB etc. Where is meteor located when deployed via mup? I keep getting a command not recognized with meteor commands.
As far as I know you can't run meteor reset on deployed apps like that as it's already been built by MUP. The way you could mimic a meteor reset is to run the mongo shell on your digital ocean server:
mongo
You can check what the databases are by using:
show dbs
and then access the one meteor is running by doing:
use [db name]
and then manually drop the databases by using:
db.[collection name].drop()
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/db.collection.drop/
Meteor already has the user collection defined so you'd probably want to drop that collection too if you want a clean start
I have started looking at Meteor and tried out some examples, but I'm puzzled by something: I have installed Meteor and not MongoDB on my machine, but Meteor seems to create its own instance of MongoDB.
How does this work?
Am I able to develop a separate application that can also perform CRUD operations on this database that Meteor is spinning up?
Meteor is shipped with a MongoDB installation
I think you can. The meteor mongo command gives the MongoDB URL to the database Meteor spins up.
meteor command will start its own instance of MongoDB.
You can then use meteor mongo to connect to the MongoDB database, which is usually running on the application's port+1, for example, app:3000 -> mongodb#:3001. So you could use any MongoDB tool to connect (for example, robomongo).
$ meteor mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.9
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:3001/meteor
I am using PhpStorm editor with mongoDB plugin, I was wondering what should be the mongodb server url,so I could monitor my mongoDB's activities directly from PhpStorm
It depends if you set MONGO_URL. If you run meteor locally with out setting MONGO_URL try
mongo localhost:3001/meteor
If you have deployed your app to meteor.com try
meteor mongo yourapp.meteor.com --url
This will return the MONGO_URLso that you can monitor/backup/restore your DB. Eg
mongodb://client-lots-of-numers#production-db-a1.meteor.io:27017/yourapp_meteor_com
When running MongoDB using the meteor command line you can access the database at localhost:3001. The database name is meteor and there is no need for credentials.
When I meteor deploy my app, it seems to create an entirely new mongodb instance. I'd like to be able to deploy with the current mongodb have locally.
Same goes the other way -- I'd like to be able to download the mongodb back to my localhost after it has been deployed.
For clarification, I'd really like to know the follow:
1) how to deploy with a fresh mongodb
2) how to deploy to an existing deployed app without overwriting the old mongodb
3) how to download/sync mongodb locally with the existing deployed app
4) how to make local backups of mongodb
You can perform a mongo dump using meteor mongo to export your local database and deploy your app using Meteor Up which should also allow you to automate the database import and deployment process.
"Meteor Up (mup for short) is a command line tool that allows you to deploy any meteor app into your own server."
You can stop the mongodb service and start a mongod instance in a separate terminal, by just typing mongod. This will let you monitor what's happening on the mongodb instance that you just started.
Open another terminal and do export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/nameOfDBgoesHere
This will create a new DB named "nameOfDBgoesHere" and it won't overwrite what you currently have, unless you name it with the same name.
After that just start meteor by typing meteor in your program's folder. In the mongod terminal that you opened you should see some connections opening.
By default mongodb creates it's DB files in /data/db. If you have another meteor app and follow the same steps in another terminal, while keeping the name of the DB you specified in the MONGO_URL you will just connect to it from that app - without overwriting anything.
As for the syncing with a deployed app and the local backups of mongo - it seems like something that the mongodb website covers, but maybe someone can chime in here. Not sure if there is a meteor specific, easy way of doing this.
I'm new to both Meteor.js and MongoDB and after installing Meteor in the official way described I wonder how to connect to my MongoDB.
MongoDB was installed by Meteor during the installation and everything works fine but now I would like to have a look into it with another tool (like RazorSQL) to see what's in there.
But the standard connection parameters (localhost:27017) doesn't work, what can I do? Login? Password?
Update: February 2014 - Meteor 0.7.1 - The meteor port has been shifted to 3001 instead of 3002. So instead of adding two to the port meteor runs on, you add 1 instead.
MongoDB's database is installed in the meteor package containing your files in a hidden folder called .meteor. To access it from a remote tool simply add 2 to whatever your web server port is while meteor is running. It will be stored in the meteor database
e.g
http://localhost:3000 would have its mongodb server running at mongodb://localhost:3002/meteor there is no username/password on this instance if you ran it with meteor or meteor run
To get the Meteor Mongo url and port, first run your Meteor app using meteor run then run meteor mongo in a different terminal tab. You should see an output like this
[meteor-app] meteor mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.7
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:3001/meteor
this means that your Meteor Mongo is running at 127.0.0.1:3001.
If you are running your Meteor app with meteor run then you neither need username/password nor authentication configuration just make sure that you set your default database name as meteor