Question
After I install mongodb on debian/centos how do I get the mongo_url so I can connect my app to my mongodb?
- Posted on June 24, 2017
- CentOSMongoDBDebian
Asked by flameuzumo
This is rather a newbie question. Bear with me. After I install mongodb on debian/centos how do I get the mongo_url so I can connect my app to my mongodb?
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@flameuzumo
But your code is separated from the database. Meteor.js just installs MongoDB as part of it’s setup. From what I can see, it’s installed on port
3001.I don’t know what
mongo_urlis, but I guess it’s the configuration parameter in Meteor.js, so in that case, it would bemongodb://localhost:27017/myprojector however you have setup your MongoDB - so if you used authentication in the setup, your url changes tomongodb://username:password@localhost:27017/myproject.You would probably find much better help in the forums of Meteor: https://forums.meteor.com/
Hi @flameuzumo MongoDB is by default listening on
localhostport27017, so your “url” is normally: