NodeBB does not work with MongoDB Atlas connection string on initial setup page

Gilles Tanson

Hey everyone,

I have the issue that I cannot set up NodeBB. I am trying to host NodeBB on Azure Container apps and I got a working instance running, but when I try to connect to my MongoDB Atlas instance via the uri, the database won't connect. There is an "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND" error shown. When I do the setup locally with "./nodebb setup" and add the uri, then everything works smoothly and I can connect.

Does anyone know if I am missing something? Or does anyone have experience hosting nodeBB and mongoDB on Azure Container Apps. Any help on how I can achieve hosting the platform on Azure is would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

phenomlab

@Gilles-Tanson said in NodeBB does not work with MongoDB Atlas connection string on initial setup page:

getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND sounds very much like a DNS issue. Do you have network reachability from the host attempting to do the connection? For example, can you resolve hostnames to IP addresses?

Gilles Tanson

I get the same problem when I try to run the web installer of nodebb via localhost. The mongodb string starts with mongo+srv://... and I think this is already the issue.

I got the setup to work now by copying the config.json with the uri to mongodb atlas in the dockerfile to /opt/config/. I can now access the forum hosted on the container because the installer script is skipped from the entrypoint.sh script.

I am now faced with the task to make it possible to have this in a CI/CD setup, when the container needs to be rebuild. Is there no easier way to achieve this?