mongoDB on debian wheezy notes

Notes on setting up MongoDB on Debian Wheezy

The system 
# cat /etc/issue /etc/debian_version 
Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l

7.9


import the mongodb.org debian repositories key 
# apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10


add the mongodb.org debian wheezy repository to the apt sources 
# echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.0 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list


update repositories 
# apt-get update


Install the latest release of mongodb-org-shell , mongodb-org-server , mongodb-org-mongos and mongodb-org-tools 
# apt-get install mongodb-org


Hold mongodb-org packages 
# echo "mongodb-org hold" | dpkg --set-selections
# echo "mongodb-org-server hold" | dpkg --set-selections
# echo "mongodb-org-shell hold" | dpkg --set-selections
# echo "mongodb-org-mongos hold" | dpkg --set-selections
# echo "mongodb-org-tools hold" | dpkg --set-selections
# grep -A 1 "Package: mongodb-org" /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: mongodb-org-mongos
Status: hold ok installed
--
Package: mongodb-org-tools
Status: hold ok installed
--
Package: mongodb-org-server
Status: hold ok installed
--
Package: mongodb-org-shell
Status: hold ok installed
--
Package: mongodb-org
Status: hold ok installed


Create an Administrator 
# mongo
> use admin
> db.createUser(
... {
... user: "admin" ,
... pwd: "passwd" ,
... roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
... }
... )


Enable authentication and change the IP address the mongo server daemon binds to 

# egrep -A 1 "bind|security" /etc/mongod.conf 
  #bindIp: 127.0.0.1
  bindIp: 192.168.101.86

--
security:
  authorization: enabled
you may use bindIp: 0.0.0.0 to to bind the MongoDB daemon to all the system IP addresses

restart the mongodb server 
# service mongod stop
# service mongod start


Log in as admin locally 
# mongo --host 192.168.101.86 --port 27017 -u "admin" -p "passwd" --authenticationDatabase "admin"


Log in from a remote host
You better uninstall the official debian repositories mongo stuff and install mongo-org-shell from mongodb.org. I did not encounter any issues using wheezy repositories on jessie hosts. Many "Error: 18 { code: 18, ok: 0.0, errmsg: "auth fails" } " errors are caused when old mongo clients or driver-libraries are trying to talk to new versions of mongodb servers. 
# apt-get remove mongodb mongodb-clients mongodb-dev mongodb-server
# echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.0 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install mongodb-org-shell
# echo "mongodb-org-shell hold" | dpkg --set-selections
and finally login from a remote host 
$ mongo 192.168.101.86/admin -u admin -p passwd
MongoDB shell version: 3.0.7
connecting to: 192.168.101.86/admin
>


Create a database 
use amongodb


Create a user that can read and write on the amongodb 
> db.createUser(
        ... { user: "amongouser" ,
        ... pwd: "somepasswd" ,
        ... roles: [ {  role: "readWrite", db: "amongodb" } ]
        ... }
        ... )


and login from a remote host 
$ mongo 192.168.101.86/amongodb -u amongouser -p somepasswd








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