By Viet Tran
I want to create a MongoDB server and connect it from local machine using Spring Data MongoDB. I’m able to connect to MongoDB using ssh via Mac CLI but don’t know how to create URI to connect to it. In another words, I don’t know how to create MongoClient.
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Hi @devbc7ce689810e2095410142c
I would recommend that you keep MongoDB on your droplet contained, so it only listens on localhost of the droplet - and not exposing it to the internet.
Then you can create a SSH tunnel to your server and you would then connect to localhost on your computer in Spring Data.
This tutorial is for various other services and ports, but you just need to setup port 27017 which is MongoDB’s default port (unless you’ve changed that):
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-tunneling-on-a-vps
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