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Reputation: 3721

Meteor change from local to remote DB

I'm trying to connect my development app to a remote mongodb at mongolabs. I have tried to change the environment settings in the settings.json file to:

"env": {
    "MONGO_URL": "mongodb://xxxxx:[email protected]:xxxx/xxxx"
}

and to:

"env": {
    "export MONGO_URL": "mongodb://xxxxx:[email protected]:xxxx/xxxx"
}

I have also tried these two above commands in the terminal, which gives me a error of `'export' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Or:

'MONGO_URL' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

Where else can the environment variables be changed to connect to the remote DB?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1162

Answers (1)

Brett McLain
Brett McLain

Reputation: 2010

From the command line run this:

Linux:

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://xxxxx:[email protected]:xxxx/xxxx

Windows:

set MONGO_URL=mongodb://xxxxx:[email protected]:xxxx/xxxx

I don't think "env" in the settings.json file is supported.

EDIT:

If you want to control this based on logged in user (i.e. if you have a dev user, prod user, etc.) then add this export line (linux only) to your .bashrc file so that when the user logs in, this environment variable is automatically set.

Upvotes: 6

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