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.
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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
I've been working on a project with some friends using MongoDB and Meteor. It was working fine until we deployed it, we noticed the Mongo DB was not connecting to the Meteor app.
We are using:
Azure's Virtual Machine server
Meteor for development
Mongo for our database (Hosted in Azure's Document DB, different location from the Meteor's Azure VM)
Meteor up (mup) for deployment
We did notice that when we run the project locally with meteor, we need to specify the MONGO_URL on the same command (MONGO_URL="MongoDB connection string" meteor) if not, it doesn't connect to the db. This may be happening on the website, although we have specified the mongo url in the mup as follows:
env: {
ROOT_URL: 'IP',
MONGO_URL: '<URL>'
},
We have checked everything and not sure how to proceed, any feedback would help.
EDIT: Specify server locations
I have the URI of the modulus database, but I don't know how to connect to it through meteor mongo. What command can I use?
The easiest way to connect to an external Mongo database with Meteor is to use an environment variable when starting Meteor:
$ export MONGO_URL="mongodb://user:password#address.com/dbname"
$ meteor run
The syntax for the mongo connection string is
mongodb://<username>:<password>#<host>/<database>?<options>
When hosting with modulus they have a dedicated page where you can set environment variables.
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'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