Connect directly to a database

[ro-ka]

It would be great to connect directly to a database (In case I have permission to just that database and I am not an admin for the whole mongo installation).

Could look like this in the "Add server" dialog:
user:pass@host:port/database

(This syntax is similar to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Connections)

[bobthecow]

It should already work just like that. Are you seeing otherwise?

[ro-ka]

Tried it earlier today and it didn't work. Will check again tomorrow.

[ro-ka]

Checked again and I get an error label next to the server name. The name is also not clickable. Tried it as admin user and as normal user with access to just that database.

[RealJTG]

Same for me, not working on mongolab.com account with per-database authentication

[bobthecow]

@RealJTG Are you using v2.0? PHP or Ruby implementation?

[ygbr]

Ruby version is returning an error:

localhost - - [13/Sep/2012:23:38:34 BRT] "GET /check-status HTTP/1.1" 200 13
http://0.0.0.0:5678/ -> /check-status
NameError - undefined local variable or method name' for #<Genghis::Server:0x007fd2330d46e0>: /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/genghisapp-2.0.0/genghis.rb:502:inadd_server'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/genghisapp-2.0.0/genghis.rb:607:in block in <class:Server>' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1265:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1265:in block in compile!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in[]'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in block (3 levels) in route!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:851:inroute_eval'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:835:in block (2 levels) in route!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:872:inblock in process_route'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:870:in catch' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:870:inprocess_route'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:834:in block in route!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:833:ineach'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:833:in route!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:936:indispatch!'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in block in call!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:inblock in invoke'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:in catch' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:921:ininvoke'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:769:in call!' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:755:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/xss_header.rb:22:in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/path_traversal.rb:16:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/json_csrf.rb:17:in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/base.rb:47:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-protection-1.2.0/lib/rack/protection/xss_header.rb:22:in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/nulllogger.rb:9:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/head.rb:9:in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:99:incall'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1389:in block in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1471:insynchronize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sinatra-1.3.3/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1389:in call' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/handler/webrick.rb:59:inservice'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:138:in service' /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/httpserver.rb:94:inrun'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/server.rb:191:in `block in start_thread'
localhost - - [13/Sep/2012:23:38:42 BRT] "POST /servers HTTP/1.1" 500 93
http://0.0.0.0:5678/ -> /servers

[bobthecow]

Yup. This definitely doesn't work in either PHP or Ruby implementation. Tagging it as a feature request for v2.1 :)

[bobthecow]

A Ruby backend fix for this issue has been added to the develop branch. It will go out in the next release. I'm aiming to get a similar fix in for the PHP backend as well.

[bobthecow]

I just added db authentication support to the PHP backend as well, and fixed a couple of edge case bugs along the way.

I'm closing this issue, as the feature is now fully implemented in develop, and will go into the next release.

There is an outstanding feature request to work around AllowEncodedSlashes with Apache (see #62), but we might as well get things working for everyone else in the meantime.