Sails fails to load when using remote Mongo DB

Question

My Sail app runs when connecting to my local mongo db, but when I try and connect using a db hosted at Modulus, it won't load properly.

I have set the connection properly and tested it via it IDE

connections.js:
    // MONGO DB reference for the database
    cogspeed: {
    adapter   : 'sails-mongo',
    //host      : 'localhost',
    host      : 'novus.modulusmongo.net',
    port      : 27017,
    user      : '*********',
    password  : '***********',
    database  : '**********'
  },

The error I get is:

C:\Projects\gmm\cogspeed>sails lift

info: Starting app...

error: A hook (`orm`) failed to load!
error: Error: failed to connect to [localhost:27017]
    at null.<anonymous> (C:\Projects\gmm\cogspeed\node_modules\sails-mongo\node_modules\mongodb\lib\mongodb\conne
ction\server.js:553:74)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:106:17)
    at null.<anonymous> (C:\Projects\gmm\cogspeed\node_modules\sails-mongo\node_modules\mongodb\lib\mongodb\conne
ction\connection_pool.js:140:15)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (C:\Projects\gmm\cogspeed\node_modules\sails-mongo\node_modules\mongodb\lib\mongodb\con
nection\connection.js:512:10)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at net.js:441:14
    at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:459:13)

Why is Sails still looking at localhost?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I had the same issue. As it turned out, having more than one connections in connections.js with the same adapter causes this issue. I'm on sails 0.10.5