How to configure MONGO_URI

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Charlie Furniss

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Jun 20, 2016, 1:44:21 PM6/20/16

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Hi there

I'm trying to deploy a Node.js app (actually Keystone.js) to Digitial Ocean using Distelli. And I can't configure the MONGO_URI variable correctly in the .env file.

The docs spell this out as:

mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,host2[:port2],...[,hostN[:portN]]][/[database][?options]]

They say that the only required element is the host1 portion, which can be either a hostname, IP address, or UNIX domain socket.

I can't work out what this should be in my case. Can anyone tell me where I can find this?

Thanks

Charlie

Kevin Adistambha

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Jun 28, 2016, 9:17:39 PM6/28/16

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Hi Charlie,

I’m trying to deploy a Node.js app (actually Keystone.js) to Digitial Ocean using Distelli. And I can’t configure the MONGO_URI variable correctly in the .env file.
The docs spell this out as:

mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,host2[:port2],…[,hostN[:portN]]][/[database][?options]]

They say that the only required element is the host1 portion, which can be either a hostname, IP address, or UNIX domain socket.
I can’t work out what this should be in my case. Can anyone tell me where I can find this?

You would need to provision a separate MongoDB database server to support your Keystone app, then supply the address of that server to your app.

We can help you with MongoDB-specific issues (such as performance questions, queries, etc.), but for operational questions, generally you may find more expertise and faster response on Keystone mailing list other ops-focused Q/A websites such as ServerFault.