I have the most basic getting started question. I'...
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millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 8:57 PMI have the most basic getting started question. I'm following https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md but getting "MongoDB connection error." and "AuthenticationFailed" on step 8,
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fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 8:59 PM
Hi, lets make sure the docker image for mongo is up and working
fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 8:59 PM
or are you installing mongo a different way?
fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 9:00 PM
You can check what the settings are in packages/back-end/.env.local
fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 9:01 PM
you should see
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# MongoDB
MONGODB_URI=<mongodb://root:password@localhost:27017/>m
millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:10 PMThank you for your quick response
millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:12 PMIt's through Docker
millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:16 PMI was in packages/back-end looking around earlier and had opened .env.example.
millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:16 PMAre you talking about here: https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/tree/main/packages/back-end? Because I don't see .env.local
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fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 9:27 PM
yes, we don’t check in the local environment variables
fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 9:27 PM
but you can copy the .example to .local
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millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:47 PMDo you mean create a file .env.local in the same folder as .env.example and copy the contents?
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fresh-football-47124
12/02/2022, 9:47 PM
yes
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millions-florist-39584
12/02/2022, 9:53 PMI did that and got the same error. There must be something simple that I'm missing. I'll stop bugging you and read about it with the new information I have now. Thank you.
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