How do I authenticate to view mongodb's http console?

Question

I'm running a mongodb process with the following line:

/usr/bin/mongod --dbpath /var/db/mongo --journal

According to mongodb's docs: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Http+Interface

I should be able to access the http console with http://myhost:28017

When I attempt to access the page it asks for authentication.

According to the docs if security is configured I would need to authenticate. But after looking at mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Security+and+Authentication it seems clear to me I'm not using any authentication. I don't run the process with the --auth option, nor are there any users when I run a db.system.users.find() command.

What's going on here?

Answer 1

I have been able to reproduce this, and this is not the intended behavior. I have filed https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-4601 The fix version is 2.1.1

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

In the meantime, there are two work-arounds:
1) Enter the credentials for authentication in the browser pop-up window 2) Remove all user credentials from each of your DBs (including admin) using db.system.users.remove()

Either of these should allow you to view the http console.