Meteor Up deployment, can't use meteor mongo --url

Question

I\'ve recently deployed my Meteor app to a Digital Ocean droplet running Ubuntu 14.04 x32. I used Meteor Up with this mup.json file:

Answer 1

You can change the mongod.conf, to allow access from outside (a bit dangerous of course ;)

nano /etc/mongod.conf

# Listen to local interface only. Comment out to listen on all     interfaces.
# bind_ip = 127.0.0.1

then restart the server

service mongod stop
service mongod start

and you can access it from outside (using ssh-forwarding in robo-mongo)