MONGO_URL doesn't work with meteor reset

Question

You can use MONGO_URLenv variable to tell meteor to connect to your instance of mongodb. Great.

For instance:

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/my_project meteor works. I see the new documents in my robomongo on localhost in a database named my_project.

But if I do:

MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/my_project meteor reset, the database my_project stays unchanged. meteor reseting works when I use the meteor-provided mongodb (when I don't supply MONGO_URL).

Things I tried:

EXPORTing MONGO_URL instead of putting it in front of the command. Doesn't help.

Also to what mongo instance do meteor connects to if I just run meteor (the default one) ? I can't find any meteor database on my localhost

To open robomongo on default mongo server created by meteor: In robomongo: `File > Connect > Create > name: 'Meteor default', address: 'localhost:3001' > Connect`. Your collections are in `Meteor > collections`. `meteor` server must be started for this to work. — Benjamin Crouzier, Aug 25 '14 at 21:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '14 at 20:51

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If you don't specify a MONGO_URL, then mongo will create a database in your .meteor directory tree and run it on 127.0.0.1:3001. The mongo reset command seems to just remove the local files for those. To reset your external mongo db for your meteor app you can just remove the my_project db: mongo my_project -> db.dropDatabase().

answered Aug 25 '14 at 20:51

Christian Fritz

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Thanks. I would have loved to be able to `meteor reset` on my specific database `my_database`. Is there a way ? – Benjamin Crouzier Aug 25 '14 at 21:00
Meteor does run `127.0.0.1:3001` once my meteor server is started. I could connect robomongo to it. This is very handy. – Benjamin Crouzier Aug 25 '14 at 21:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '14 at 21:08

From the source code for the 'reset' command

if (options.args.length !== 0) {
  process.stderr.write(
    "meteor reset only affects the locally stored database.\n" +
    "\n" +
    "To reset a deployed application use\n" +
    "  meteor deploy --delete appname\n" +
    "followed by\n" +
   "  meteor deploy appname\n");
  return 1;
}

MONGO_URL doesn't work with meteor reset

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