Error Message: MongoError: bad auth Authentication failed through URI string

Question

I\'m trying to connect to my mongoDB server via the connection string given to me by mongo:

"mongodb+srv://david:p         


        

Answer 1

Are you writing your password in the place of ? If your aren't, a good practice is to create a environment variable on your operating system and call it using process.env.[your variable]. Ex:

const password = process.env.YOURPASSWORDVARIABLE
const db = 'mongodb+srv://david:'+password+'@cluster0-re3gq.mongodb.net/test?retryWrites=true'

Better yet, you can also put your whole url connection string inside a env variable: