Question
Connecting to Mongodb on Droplet from app running on AWS instance?
- Posted on May 16, 2017
- MongoDBUbuntu 16.04
Asked by Viet Tran
SSH tunneling is great way to connect to MongoDB running on Droplet from local machine and work on local machine but I don’t know how to connect to MongoDB Droplet from AWS or from anywhere app.
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Connecting over an SSH Tunnel is probably the most secure means of connecting, though you also have the option of opening remote connections to the MongoDB instance.
In /etc/mongod.conf there’s a directive named bind_ip which you can set to the IP of the Droplet (and then restart MongoDB). I would, however, recommend ensuring that you’ve setup a firewall and are only allowing access to a limited number of IP’s if you go that route.
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