Correct mongodb connection parameters?

[timconsidine]

I am trying to package the CodexDocs app, and am struggling to express the required connection string in Cloudron format.

The 'native' command is an environment variable :
APP_CONFIG_database_mongodb_uri=mongodb://mongo:fe7cb9063db50ab63c87@codexdocs_codex-db:27017

I ham trying to express this in Cloudron syntax in start.sh for mongodb addon as :
export APP_CONFIG_database_mongodb_uri=mongodb://${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_USERNAME}:${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_PASSWORD}@${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_DATABASE}:${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_PORT}

But I am getting AuthenticationFailed
And I can't see what is wrong.
Just checking with y'all if my statement looks ok.

Then I will try to check if the app is trying to connect with mongo username instead of ${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_USERNAME}

[nebulon]

This kinda looks fine, there is also CLOUDRON_MONGODB_URL which has the connect URL string already prebuilt.

[timconsidine]

Oh interesting, so it could be just mongodb://${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_URL}, or it would still need user/password ?

[timconsidine]

Blundering about with trial&error, I managed to get it working by appending the database parameter.

export APP_CONFIG_database_mongodb_uri=mongodb://${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_USERNAME}:${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_PASSWORD}@${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_HOST}:${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_PORT}/${CLOUDRON_MONGODB_DATABASE}

Sadly there is another problem with the app also experienced when I was using local storage that pages are not actually created. I thought it might be a folders/permissions issue so tried to side-step it with a database.
Thank you @nebulon for helping resolve that.
But <sigh> behaviour persists.
Oh well, I shall continuing investigating.

[nebulon]

The CLOUDRON_MONGODB_URL variable already has the schema (mongod://) in it as well as the database identifier, so you should be able to just use that directly.

[timconsidine]

Cool, that makes it more concise and less open to mis-use (by me )