Fail to connect Mongoose to Atlas

Question

I'm always connecting to the "admin" DB, which is a fixed bug.

Using Mongoose 5.0.6 MongoDb 3.6 and trying to connect to Atlas.

My question, what driver Mongoose 5.0.6 depend on?
How can I find out when Mongoose will have that fix?
On a different direction, is there a way to connect with MongoDB then use this connection with Mongoose?

Cheers

score 57 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 24 '19 at 15:27

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Basically you should try connecting with your url link, and specify the DB name on the mongoose connect method so if your cluster link is:

mongodb+srv://userName:Passwrod@clustor.mongodb.net/

and your DB name is:

testDB

then you should call the mongoose.connect method as follows:

mongoose.connect('mongodb+srv://userName:Passwrod@cluster.mongodb.net/', {dbName: 'testDB'});

edited Oct 24 '19 at 15:27

XDavidT

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answered Feb 22 '18 at 00:13

Chai Halfon

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Awesome! Thanks! – HatzavW Feb 22 '18 at 00:15
I'm getting this error :/ events.js:160 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: No valid replicaset instance servers found – TheMisir Aug 26 '18 at 08:50
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@MisirJafarov are you trying to connect to an atlas instance which have replicasets? – Chai Halfon Aug 26 '18 at 15:02
@ChaiHalfon sorry but actually I don't know what's replicaset :/ I'm new to MongoDB. – TheMisir Aug 27 '18 at 16:05
i fixed it by updating mongoose – TheMisir Aug 31 '18 at 11:06

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '19 at 12:59

Connection is established when you use this connection string for (MongoShell 3.6+) :

var connDB = "mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster-fax0w.mongodb.net/test"

However, you will not be able to read/write data without entering the DBName in the mongoose.connect().

mongoose.connect(uri, { dbName: <your DB name> })
  .then( () => {
    console.log('Connection to the Atlas Cluster is successful!')
  })
  .catch( (err) => console.error(err));

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '20 at 08:03

Just a side note if you ever get an error connecting to the MongoDB Atlas make sure:

You've whitlisted our IP address / all (0.0.0.0/0)
Your credentials are right
Firewall / anti-virus are disabled

And if all fails

Make sure your DNS is a public one. Or maybe change it to Google's public DNS. Throwing a link for the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9u5ULrRt3Y

Goodluck!

Fail to connect Mongoose to Atlas

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