Running MongoDb inside the same container is not working

[j-holub]

Hey,

first Thank You very much for this nice project, it might be exactly what will save my project from going into the trash bin (if it wasn't for Debian having a like 5 years old MPV player version).

So my application is a little unorthodox, it was never intended to run on a web server in some server cluster. It should run inside your home network on a Pi or your Laptop, that's why it has to be easy to set up (And meteor apps really are not...) and that's why for this app it perfectly fine to run MongoDb from inside in production mode.

What did I do?

For testing I downloaded the simple-todos app from the meteor repository

wget https://github.com/meteor/simple-todos.git

I created a Dockerfile and a launchpad.conf with INSTALL_MONGO=true. Then I ran

docker build -t jan/simple-todos

When I then tried to run it with

docker run  -p 80:3000 jan/test-todos

omitting the MONGO_URL as stated in your Readme, I get the following Error

=> Starting app on port 3000...
/opt/meteor/dist/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers/future.js:280
						throw(ex);
						^

Error: MONGO_URL must be set in environment
    at Object.<anonymous> (packages/mongo/remote_collection_driver.js:36:11)
    at Object.defaultRemoteCollectionDriver (packages/underscore/underscore.js:750:1)
    at new Mongo.Collection (packages/mongo/collection.js:103:40)
    at AccountsServer.AccountsCommon (packages/accounts-base/accounts_common.js:23:18)
    at new AccountsServer (packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js:18:5)
    at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.accounts-base.server_main.js (packages/accounts-base/server_main.js:9:12)
    at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime/.npm/package/node_modules/install/install.js:153:1)
    at require (packages/modules-runtime/.npm/package/node_modules/install/install.js:82:1)
    at /opt/meteor/dist/bundle/programs/server/packages/accounts-base.js:1798:15
    at /opt/meteor/dist/bundle/programs/server/packages/accounts-base.js:1809:3

I have checked your code and didn't find anywhere, where the environment variable MONGO_URL is actually set. All I found was the part in entrypoint.sh with the if condition, but it does not seem to actually set the MONGO_URL.

Unfortunately I'm not really good with bash scripting, that's why fixing it myself and opening a pull request wasn't possible.

I particularly tried it with the meteor example app, the rule out the possibility of my app having anything to do with it. It is just the plain simple-todos app, no modifications what so ever.

Cheers,

Jan

[jshimko]

This has been fixed in v1.1.1 (or :latest)

Thanks!