How is MongoDb installed by Meteor?

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Marc picture Marc · Jan 17, 2013 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm new to both Meteor.js and MongoDB and after installing Meteor in the official way described I wonder how to connect to my MongoDB.

MongoDB was installed by Meteor during the installation and everything works fine but now I would like to have a look into it with another tool (like RazorSQL) to see what's in there.

But the standard connection parameters (localhost:27017) doesn't work, what can I do? Login? Password?

Connection parameters to MongoDB in RazorSQL

Answer

Tarang picture Tarang · Jan 17, 2013

Update: February 2014 - Meteor 0.7.1 - The meteor port has been shifted to 3001 instead of 3002. So instead of adding two to the port meteor runs on, you add 1 instead.

MongoDB's database is installed in the meteor package containing your files in a hidden folder called .meteor. To access it from a remote tool simply add 2 to whatever your web server port is while meteor is running. It will be stored in the meteor database

e.g http://localhost:3000 would have its mongodb server running at mongodb://localhost:3002/meteor there is no username/password on this instance if you ran it with meteor or meteor run

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