Does not support standard Mongo connection string

[satyavh]

The standard Mongo connection-string is described here:
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/connection-string/

However, if you pass a connection string to MONGO_URL of this format:
mongodb://user:pass@host:port,host:port/database?replicaSet=name

This will result in:

> [0] Error: double colon in host identifier
> [0]     at module.exports (/usr/src/app/bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/npm-mongo/node_modules/mongodb/lib/url_parser.js:90:13)
> [0]     at connect (/usr/src/app/bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/npm-mongo/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:486:16)
> [0]     at Function.MongoClient.connect (/usr/src/app/bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/npm-mongo/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongo_client.js:250:3)
> [0]     at new MongoConnection (packages/mongo/mongo_driver.js:168:11)
> [0]     at new MongoInternals.RemoteCollectionDriver (packages/mongo/remote_collection_driver.js:4:16)
> [0]     at Object.<anonymous> (packages/mongo/remote_collection_driver.js:38:10)
> [0]     at Object.defaultRemoteCollectionDriver (packages/underscore.js:784:19)
> [0]     at new AccountsCommon (packages/accounts-base/accounts_common.js:23:18)
> [0]     at new AccountsServer (packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js:18:5)

This refers to the host:port,host:port part of the above connection string

You can try this out by creating a mlab.com replica set and use the provided connecting-string. It will not work. As such this package currently does not work with mLab.

FYI:
the exact same connection string works fine with Meteor-up and Galaxy. I wanted to try this package out because I love Now.sh, but unfortunately I got stuck here.

[nabiltntn]

I am using mlab too with the same URL format and it's working with the following configuration: Meteor 1.7 , MongoDB : 3.6

Maybe you need to use simple quote around connection string:

MONGO_URL='mongodb://user:pass@host:port,host:port/database?replicaSet=name'

[jkrup]

Hey @satyavh, did @nabiltntn 's comment work for you? It definitely seems like an issue of the terminal not escaping some of the special characters. Another way around that is to use now secrets and then reference it with @MONGO_URL: https://github.com/jkrup/meteor-now#using-meteor_settings