A2 - database names cannot contain the character '.'

[Fotis Paraskevopoulos]

Hello All,

We are starting a couple of A2 project, so I went ahead an reviewed the steps necessary to get up and running by following the tutorials.

Specifically 

http://apostrophenow.org/tutorials/getting-started/creating-your-first-project.html

In the steps outlined there is no mention of the database setup, and by following the steps I get stuck right after the first “node app.js”. I created the project using the “apostrophe” cli command.

Here is my info

$ apostrophe --version

0.1.4

$ npm --version

2.14.12

$ node --version

v4.3.0

$ export PORT=3005; node app.js

[project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:1763

    if(databaseName.indexOf(invalidChars[i]) != -1) throw MongoError.create({message: "database names cannot contain the character '" + invalidChars[i] + "'", driver:true});

                                                    ^

MongoError: database names cannot contain the character '.'

    at Function.MongoError.create ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)

    at validateDatabaseName ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:1763:70)

    at new Db ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:150:3)

    at createServer ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:199:3)

    at connect ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:324:12)

    at Function.MongoClient.connect ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:114:3)

    at self.connectToMongo ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/lib/modules/apostrophe-db/index.js:68:32)

    at [project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:718:13

    at iterate ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:262:13)

    at async.forEachOfSeries.async.eachOfSeries ([project_root]/node_modules/apostrophe/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:281:9)

I also tried creating a “data” directory and copying local.example.js => local.js

Any help would be much appreciated.

Best,

Fotis

[Tom Boutell]

Hi Fotis,

I'm thinking you have a "." in your "shortName" setting.

We will document that this is not a good idea. Letters, digits,
hyphens, underscores. We prefer hyphens, but that's us.

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[Tom Boutell]

Your shortname = your argument to apostrophe's command line app generator.

[Fotis Paraskevopoulos]

OK Tom,

Its working now

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