Creating a MongoDb account

Creating a MongoDb account

Prerequisites

Gmail account.

Sign up

Visit https://account.mongodb.com/account/register .

Choose Sign up with Google

Choose the Gmail account you want to use for signing up.

Accept privacy policy and terms of service

You will be asked to name your organization and project ( in lack of better idea it is safe to accept the defaults )

Select your preferred programming language, then press Continue

Create a FREE cluster

Edit your account details ( it is safe to accept defaults ), then press Create Cluster

Setting up database

From the Get Started guide select Create your first database user

Click on Database Access

Click on Add New Database User

For Authentication Method select "Password", and enter a username ( consisting of only small cap letters, don't use any special characters, YoBot_v2 not good, yobotversiontwo good ) and password ( in the image a password containing special characters was typed in manually, which is not a good idea, because this needs url encoding due to special characters, so it is safest to press Autogenerate Secure Password and SHOW / Copy this auto generated password )

From Database User Privileges select Atlas admin, then press Add User

You can add further users to your database by pressing ADD NEW DATABASE USER, but we will be content with one user

Click on Network Access

Click on Add IP Address

Select Allow access from anywhere then press Confirm

From the Get Started guide select Connect to your cluster, then press Connect

Obtaining MONGODB_URI

Select Connect your application

Copy your connection string and replace the password with your database user's password, delete everything from /dbname onward, you won't need this.

If you copied

mongodb+srv://hyperchessbot:<password>@cluster0.bv7tb.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority

edit it to

mongodb+srv://hyperchessbot:youractualpassword@cluster0.bv7tb.mongodb.net

and save this as a Heroku config var under the key MONGODB_URI .

Of course instead of hyperchessbot you need your actual database user name ( but this will be filled in for you, when you copy ).

There should be no forward slash at the end of MONGODB_URI!