Re: [nodejs] Error: database names cannot contain the character '.'

[Daniel Rinehart]

Remove the space before the @ sign in your address variable.

-- Daniel R. <dan...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, man12 <mnaz...@gmail.com> wrote:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

module.exports.mongoose = mongoose;

module.exports.Schema = Schema;

// Connect to cloud database

var username = "myusername";

var password = "mypassword";

var address = ' @ds045147.mongolab.com:45147/mydatabasename';

connect();

// Connect to mongo

function connect() {

  var url = 'mongodb://' + username + ':' + password + address;

  mongoose.connect(url);

}

function disconnect() { mongoose.disconnect(); }

[man12]

Space is not there.  That's just a typo on my part. 

[Ryan Schmidt]

Do the variables username or password contain spaces, colons, slashes or other special characters? If so they need to be percent-encoded for use in a URL.

[Joe]

you need change ' to " in address definition.

the correct one should be

var address = "@ds045147.mongolab.com:45147/mydatabasename";

it fixes your problem. Happy Hollidays!

On Friday, December 7, 2012 2:40:00 PM UTC-5, man12 wrote:

I am in the process of learning node.js and using mongoose for Mongodb.  I am following an example from a tutorial to connect to hosted mongodb.  I am getting the error message: 'database names cannot contain the character '.'     Here is my code:

// .............................................................

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

module.exports.mongoose = mongoose;

module.exports.Schema = Schema;

// Connect to cloud database

var username = "myusername";

var password = "mypassword";

var address = ' @ds045147.mongolab.com:45147/mydatabasename';

connect();

// Connect to mongo

function connect() {

  var url = 'mongodb://' + username + ':' + password + address;

  mongoose.connect(url);

}

function disconnect() { mongoose.disconnect(); }

// ...................................................................................

Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?  Thanks in advance for any help.

MN

[Ryan Schmidt]

Why in the world would that make any difference? A string is a string, regardless whether you use single or double quotes.