Galaxy deployment - Failed to connect to mongo

deployment
1

I´m getting the following error when uploading an app that uses a mongodb database from mlab:

/app/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers/future.js:313
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throw(ex);
Error: failed to connect to [<myusername>:NaN]
 at Object.Future.wait (/app/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers/future.js:449:15)
 at new MongoConnection (packages/mongo/mongo_driver.js:213:27)

Uploading the barebones Meteor example works fine (no collections).

Then I modified the example to use a mongoDB collection and then the error appears,

I can connect to the mlab database using mongo shell without any problems.

The settings.json seems to be fine.

{
    "galaxy.meteor.com": { 
            "env": {
                "ROOT_URL": "http://www.example.com",
		"MONGO_URL": "mongodb://<myusername>:<mypassword>@ds023456.mlab.com:23456/mydb"
	    } 
    }
}

I can see that in the error the password is NaN, maybe that´s the issue?

Thanks!

2

There have been some reported issues with “weird” characters in the password field - maybe try more “normal” characters?

3

This was a very dumb mistake… I was using <username>:<password> instead of username:password.

That solved it. Thanks for the help!

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4

Hi! Thanks for this. got same error and I did the same exact thing you did. Do we actually need to input our “username:password”? This would be the same username and password used to login into mlab?

5

Oh wait. It would be dbusername and dbpassword that we created for the initial user right? So it’s not the account info to sign into mlab

6

Yup. That’s totally right.