Connection Fail

[felixcheruiyot]

I am trying to use Laravel-MongoDB in Laravel 4 but I run into this error

MongoClient::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known 

From Laravel trace tool, this file is highlighted [/var/www/archels/vendor/jenssegers/mongodb/src/Jenssegers/Mongodb/Connection.php] line 30-39

// Store configuration
$this->config = $config;
// Check for connection options
$options = array_get($config, 'options', array());
// Create connection
$this->connection = new MongoClient($this->getDsn($config), $options);
// Select database

This is how I do my connection

'mongodb' => array( 'driver' => 'mongodb', 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 27017, 'username' => 'myusername', 'password' => 'mypassword', 'database' => 'mydb' ),

Note: I followed this tutorial for php-driver installation and RockDB.

Any Idea on why this is happening? Thanks

[jenssegers]

I don't really know what is causing that warning, but I don't think it is related to the library as it is PHP's MongoClient that is throwing it. You could try localhost instead of 127.0.0.1.

Good luck.

[felixcheruiyot]

Thank you for the response. I am still trying to solve these problem. I noticed that passing the connection string directly at line 37 works.

 $this->connection = new MongoClient('mongodb://localhost/');

This gives me an idea that my mongo works with php, but how is the current connection string look like? Can there be a problem with the way we are passing it. Here is my server details:

• PHP 5.3.6
• Ubuntu server
• Laravel 4

Thanks

[jenssegers]

It will generate the following DSN for the configuration array above:

mongodb://myusername:mypassword@127.0.0.1:27017/mydb

[felixcheruiyot]

Found the problem. It is on my side. Used a password generator and which produced my password with a '@' character. Just noticed that. The code is working well.

I am now passing my connection as expected:

'mongodb' => array( 'driver' => 'mongodb', 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'port' => 27017, 'username' => 'myusername', 'password' => 'mypassword', 'database' => 'mydb' ),

Thank you for the good library and support.

[jenssegers]

I will try passing the username and password as options to avoid this problem for future users.

[felixcheruiyot]

Yes that will help. It might take someone quite some time to figure out such an error.

[jenssegers]

I modified the Connection class, it should allow usernames and passwords with strange characters now.

[felixcheruiyot]

Awesome. Works well now.

Cheers!