The difference between MongoDB Instance set up on a "MongoDB" single-click app vs a "MEAN" single click app

June 14, 2015 5.5k views
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Yesterday I ran into this problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30822370/authentication-always-failing-when-connecting-to-mongodb

I was confident I did everything right, but alas, had no luck. The MongoDB instance I was using in this case was an instance of MongoDB set up from the single-click-install app for Ubuntu 14.04.

After having no luck, I decided to install the MeanStack single click application. It worked out of the box so I figured I could just dissect it, see what it was doing, and what I was doing wrong. To my surprise though, I couldn’t find what I was doing wrong at all in terms of how I had set up my database query. I just popped in my own app, completely replacing the MEAN app provided with my own, and it worked perfectly with that MongoDB instance.

So this leaves the instance of MongoDB as the only difference. Something about the MongoDB set up with the “MongoDB” app, meant a query that would work in the Mean Stack" app didn’t work there. Surely, I must have missed something I was supposed to do in the MongoDB app that prevented any of my authentication-related queries from working.

So what are the differences between the two instances of MongoDB which would cause one to work while the other didn’t? (In this case, the MEAN stack app allowed me to plugin and go straight away, while the MongoDB app didn’t..)

6 comments
  • scalegrid June 14, 2015

    Hi,

    Can you share your /etc/mongod.conf so we can look at your settings? We operate mongodirector.com on DigitalOcean - so we have a lot of context on mongodb setup and can probably help you out.

  • antbradley91 June 14, 2015

    Yes, here is the requested file (thank you!)

    mongod.conf Where to store the data. Note: if you run mongodb as a non-root user (recommended) you may need to create and set permissions for this directory manually, e.g., if the parent directory isn’t mutable by the mongodb user.

    dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb

    where to log

    logpath=/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log

    logappend=true

    port = 27017 Listen to local interface only. Comment out to listen on all interfaces.

    bind_ip = 127.0.0.1

    Disables write-ahead journaling nojournal = true Enables periodic logging of CPU utilization and I/O wait cpu = true Turn on/off security. Off is currently the default noauth = true auth = true Verbose logging output. verbose = true Inspect all client data for validity on receipt (useful for developing drivers) objcheck = true Enable db quota management quota = true Set oplogging level where n is 0=off (default) 1=W 2=R 3=both 7=W+some reads diaglog = 0 Ignore query hints nohints = true Enable the HTTP interface (Defaults to port 28017). httpinterface = true Turns off server-side scripting. This will result in greatly limited functionality noscripting = true Turns off table scans. Any query that would do a table scan fails. notablescan = true Disable data file preallocation. noprealloc = true Specify .ns file size for new databases. nssize = Replication Options in replicated mongo databases, specify the replica set name here replSet=setname maximum size in megabytes for replication operation log oplogSize=1024 path to a key file storing authentication info for connections between replica set members keyFile=/path/to/keyfile
  • scalegrid June 15, 2015

    Hi,

    A few things

    1. bind_ip is only 127.0.0.1 - so you cannot connect to this instance from outside. You will need to comment out this line to access on other interfaces
    2. Can you comment out “noauth=true” and make sure “auth=true” is enabled to enable authentication
    3. if you using mongodb 3.0 please make sure you are using the mongo 3.0 client. There are changes in the authentication protocol that make the mongo 3.0 server incompatible with older version of mongo client.

    Hope that helps,
    Dharshan

    Founder Mongodirector.com

  • antbradley91 June 15, 2015

    Thank you!

    As a side note, I was on the same server while doing this, though on different ports. My Mongo instance was on the default port (27071) and my Node/Express server was hosted on port 3000.

    Would the difference in port be significant?

    I know for at least the Mean app in which I got MongoDB to work, it appeared to have somehow mapped the Mongo instance to be referenced from the root IP address. Perhaps this made the difference?

  • scalegrid June 15, 2015

    Hi,

    If you follow steps 1. and 2. I mentioned above, you should be good. Remember to restart the mongo service after this - “service mongod restart” on CentOS. Equivalent on your distro

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asb MOD June 7, 2016

This question was answered by @scalegrid:

Hi,

A few things

  1. bind_ip is only 127.0.0.1 - so you cannot connect to this instance from outside. You will need to comment out this line to access on other interfaces
  2. Can you comment out “noauth=true” and make sure “auth=true” is enabled to enable authentication
  3. if you using mongodb 3.0 please make sure you are using the mongo 3.0 client. There are changes in the authentication protocol that make the mongo 3.0 server incompatible with older version of mongo client.

Hope that helps,
Dharshan

Founder Mongodirector.com

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