bind to different interface

[vkarpov15]

bind to different interface

[chaiwa-berian]

@Christilut if you are on Windows it should be able to bind to whatever the hostname of your machine is. On linux/mac it should bind to localhost or 127.0.0.1!

Note: If on Windows, recommended to use version 0.3.2 or higher!

What is your development environment like?

[chaiwa-berian]

@Christilut did you mean if run-rs supports running it with a --host option so it can be bound to any host where the replica set is running?

[Christilut]

I'm on Linux (ubuntu 16.04). Yea I mean a host option. In the normal MongoDB installation I would have to use bindIp and set it to my local network interface.

I'm using it on a Lightsail VPS and localhost isn't exposed to the outside network there and I have to bind mongo to the private network IP address that AWS gives me.

[chaiwa-berian]

I'm on Linux (ubuntu 16.04). Yea I mean a host option. In the normal MongoDB installation I would have to use bindIp and set it to my local network interface.

I'm using it on a Lightsail VPS and localhost isn't exposed to the outside network there and I have to bind mongo to the private network IP address that AWS gives me.

Ok that sounds fair! Looking at the current codebase, the --host is not supported but I will make a pull request for it shortly so we can check it out!

[Christilut]

Awesome!

[chaiwa-berian]

@Christilut See this pull request #18

[Christilut]

Thanks, works perfectly.

I am wondering now how to enable authentication for run-rs, I think that's also not yet implemented? Maybe a simple flag --enableAuthentication that would change the mongo config to:

security:
    authorization: "enabled"

I'm running a development server, so it's not a huge deal.
Maybe it makes sense to parse a config file similar to mongod.conf with all the settings?

[chaiwa-berian]

@Christilut Good to know it works! We wait @vkarpov15 's approval to merge the pull request

[chaiwa-berian]

Thanks, works perfectly.

I am wondering now how to enable authentication for run-rs, I think that's also not yet implemented? Maybe a simple flag --enableAuthentication that would change the mongo config to:

security:
    authorization: "enabled"

I'm running a development server, so it's not a huge deal.
Maybe it makes sense to parse a config file similar to mongod.conf with all the settings?

Great idea, kindly open a new issue for that! :)

[vkarpov15]

Auth is something we will consider for the future but it isn't a big concern. Run-rs should only be used for local dev, so auth isn't a major concern

[Christilut]

Totally agree. I'm using run-rs now on a VPS because Atlas has a bug where the free tier can't support transactions. I guess I'll do some ip whitelisting for now.