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tivoni
tivoni

Reputation: 2020

Can't connect to local (running) mongo using 'meteor mongo'

I'm playing with meteor, Installed it on Ubuntu 14.10 & followed the todos tutorial. The Meteor run log:

$ meteor run
[[[[[ ~/bckd/homedir/learn/meteor/mycoolapp ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.                             
=> Started MongoDB.                           
=> Started your app.                          

=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/

When I try to connect to mongo via another terminal, I get:

$ meteor mongo
mongo: Meteor isn't running a local MongoDB server.
This command only works while Meteor is running your application locally. Start your
application first. (This error will also occur if you asked Meteor to use a different MongoDB
server with $MONGO_URL when you ran your application.)

If you're trying to connect to the database of an app you deployed with `meteor deploy`,
specify your site's name with this command.

Trying to work around this problem I looked at the mongo command, and soon enough I figured I can connect using:

$ mongo localhost:3001

So great, that's working and it seems that I am able to use that for the time being.

But... why is the official way: meteor mongo not working in my setup, and can I do anything to fix it?

Edit 5/6/2015

After creating another account on my ubuntu, logging in and creating a new app, I run it and managed to connect to the mongo instance as intended with the meteor mongo command (without sudo). I thought it could be a result of a difference in my environment variables so I compared the two (dumping both environments with the env command. There were some extra bash variables in my primary account so one by one I've unset them until I reached two identical environments (with the exceptions of home directory values, user names, auto-generated values for gnome session tokens and such). Despite those changes, the problem consists. Another wild guess of mine was that the ~/.meteor folder has gone evil on me. So, I've removed it and reinstalled meteor. That didn't fix it either. Whatever the problem is, it's pretty stubborn.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4686

Answers (7)

Artiphishle
Artiphishle

Reputation: 886

check if there is a running mongo process, and kill it manually:

ps -aux | grep mongo
sudo kill [pid]

..then restart your meteor app.

--> I think this specific situation exists only when starting meteor on a custom port (not tested, but pretty obvious)

Upvotes: 0

SoEzPz
SoEzPz

Reputation: 15912

This worked for me with the same problem.

I had two terminals open: one running with meteor command, the other terminal I tried meteor mongo and received the very same message as stated in the question.

mongo: Meteor isn't running a local MongoDB server.

This command only works while Meteor is running your application locally. Start your application first with 'meteor' and then run this command in a new terminal. This error will also occur if you asked Meteor to use a different MongoDB server with $MONGO_URL when you ran your application.

If you're trying to connect to the database of an app you deployed with 'meteor deploy', specify your site's name as an argument to this command.

I tried the sudo command, which did not work as well.

Here is what worked for me.

  1. Goto running meteor server terminal and ctrl-c (shut down server).
  2. In meteor server terminal type: meteor mongo. Note: In my case the command worked and the terminal entered into mongo.
  3. Type exit to exit mongo.
  4. Type meteor to spool back up meteor server.
  5. Goto meteor mongo terminal and type: meteor mongo. Note: For me, Meteor was running in the other terminal and meteor mongo command did open meteor mongo for me without error.

Perhaps the something in Meteor needs to reboot which does not occur without shutting down meteor server first?

Upvotes: 0

vishnu
vishnu

Reputation: 549

In my case(Windows 10),I had set MONGO_URL='remote url'. In this case when you type 'meteor mongo' meteor will try to connect to the local mongodb server,but we are pointing to remote mogodb.

To point to local mongodb:

1) befor starting the app type 'set MONOGO_URL=' command in terminal.
2) now start the meteor app
3) now open a new terminal and try 'meteor mongo'

Upvotes: 0

David Revelo
David Revelo

Reputation: 86

Try: 

sudo meteor mongo

it worked for me on a Vagrant box :)

Upvotes: 4

KeithLu
KeithLu

Reputation: 91

Looks like it's your environment variable problem.

export MONGO_URL=''
meteor mongo

Upvotes: 2

Peter Ilfrich
Peter Ilfrich

Reputation: 3816

  • You need to be the same user as the user who started Meteor.
  • Also you need to connect from within the application directory.
  • Can you connect to the database with the native MongoDB client?
  • Try running sudo meteor mongo - maybe the Meteor/Node process is running as root.

Upvotes: 4

Ashutosh Vats
Ashutosh Vats

Reputation: 35

Did you create the meteor app initially : meteor create

I was having same issue on Ubuntu and found that i missed the create part as I copied the code from windows machine.

Upvotes: 1

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