Mongo DB behind Nginx as reverse proxy, share your Mongo DB with your friends in LAN network

gist.md

Mongo DB works with raw TCP instead of HTTP so we need create stream with Nginx.

Add the below code above http block in nginx config file (eg: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf for Ubuntu)

stream {
    server {
        listen  9999;
        proxy_connect_timeout 1s;
        proxy_timeout 3s;
        proxy_pass    stream_mongo_backend;
    }

    upstream stream_mongo_backend {
        server localhost:27017;
    }
}

The file after modified look like this:

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
	....

}

stream {
    server {
        listen  9999;
        proxy_connect_timeout 1s;
        proxy_timeout 3s;
        proxy_pass    stream_mongo_backend;
    }

    upstream stream_mongo_backend {
        server localhost:27017;
    }
}

http {
...
}
...

Here you can share your Mongo DB server to your friend with: yourip:9999

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