Using authentication with DoctrineMongoDBBundle

Question

I'm currently working on a project where I use mongodb as database, and I began with no security in my mongo configuration of the symfony config.yml. This is what my config.yml looked like since the beginning of the project. ``` doctrine_mongodb: connections: default: server: mongodb://localhost:27017 options: {} default_database: louisv document_managers: default: auto_mapping: true ``` With this parameters the project works very well. But I want to add security to mongodb database. So I tried to follow documentation on mongodb to create users. I created an "admin" user for the admin database, and a "louisv" user for the louisv database (the admin database is the database existing by default, and louisv is mine). Now I want to Symfony to use this new user. I changed my the option parameters from my conf.yml file and now this is what I have : ``` doctrine_mongodb: connections: default: server: mongodb://localhost:27017 options: username: louisv password: password default_database: lou…

Accepted Answer

Instead of:

```
server: mongodb://localhost:27017
```

The following should do the trick:

```
server: mongodb://localhost:27017/louisv
```

Apparently, the Doctrine ODM bundle also has a "db" option now, so you now have the following options:

```
connections:
    default:
        server: mongodb://louisv:password@localhost:27017/louisv
```

or

```
connections:
    default:
        server: mongodb://localhost:27017
        options:
            username: louisv
            password: password
            db: louisv
```

The first option is preferred, as it allows for automatic re-authentication in case a connection drops.

Using authentication with DoctrineMongoDBBundle

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