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Benjamin Crouzier
Benjamin Crouzier

Reputation: 41895

MONGO_URL doesn't work with meteor reset

You can use MONGO_URLenv variable to tell meteor to connect to your instance of mongodb. Great.

For instance:

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/my_project meteor works. I see the new documents in my robomongo on localhost in a database named my_project.

But if I do:

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/my_project meteor reset, the database my_project stays unchanged. meteor reseting works when I use the meteor-provided mongodb (when I don't supply MONGO_URL).

Things I tried:

Also to what mongo instance do meteor connects to if I just run meteor (the default one) ? I can't find any meteor database on my localhost

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1151

Answers (2)

Rob Race
Rob Race

Reputation: 206

From the source code for the 'reset' command

if (options.args.length !== 0) {
  process.stderr.write(
    "meteor reset only affects the locally stored database.\n" +
    "\n" +
    "To reset a deployed application use\n" +
    "  meteor deploy --delete appname\n" +
    "followed by\n" +
   "  meteor deploy appname\n");
  return 1;
}

Upvotes: 1

Christian Fritz
Christian Fritz

Reputation: 21364

If you don't specify a MONGO_URL, then mongo will create a database in your .meteor directory tree and run it on 127.0.0.1:3001. The mongo reset command seems to just remove the local files for those. To reset your external mongo db for your meteor app you can just remove the my_project db: mongo my_project -> db.dropDatabase().

Upvotes: 1

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