OK SO land, I have exhausted all attempts to find an answer for my issue.
I have a RoR app running Mongoid 3.16 and a remote server with Mongodb 3.05. Both servers are on the same network and I am using internal IP address to connect.
The problem that I am having is trying to secure the connection. First off, if I try to add the app IP to the bind_ip in the mongod.conf file I get an error:
Cannot assign requested address for socket: app_ip_address
Here is the bind_ip in the mongod.conf:
#bind_ip=127.0.0.1,app_ip_address
If I uncomment it and try to restart mongodb it gives me the error about "Cannot assign requested address..." So I can connect from the app to mongodb IF I leave the bind_ip commented out. I do not like this idea because it will allow any connection.
My mongoid.yml file is:
production:
sessions:
default:
database: my_database
hosts:
- mongodb_server_ip:27017
I also set up the database to have a user but if I set the auth to true for Mongodb, it will allow connection to the "my_database" without authorization, but cannot read the data unless I authenticate again (which I can do command line but not via the mongoid.yml file)
For example if I connect command line from the app server with:
mongo mongoddb_server_ip:27017/my_database
That works but when I try to view collections I have to db.auth(....) to see them.
I guess that if I can config the mongoid.yml with the username/password for mongodb that would work but I cannot figure out how to do that.
Update 11/23:
OK, I set the mongod.conf file to auth = true. Now I can connect from the app server via ssh:
mongo mnogodb_server_ip:27017/my_database --username some_username --password some_password
That allows me to connect and access all collections etc. Now that I am requiring authentication I updated my mongoid.yml file as so:
production:
sessions:
default:
database: my_database
username: some_username
password: some_password
hosts:
- mongodb_server_ip:27017
I restart the server and I cannot connect to the remote db.
