Hey!

Have you modified the authentication-related variables since redeployment?

Hi

i just changed the MONGO_PUBLIC_URL variable and i reverted back but still not working.

Hello,

thank you for the help.

I cant find in the logs the old password is there easier way to find it or search it on the logs?

Hi ,

Thanks for the earlier pointers. I tried every option suggested:

• Restored MONGO_PUBLIC_URL and confirmed the TCP proxy is active.

• Linked the project via the Railway CLI and attempted to exec into the Mongo service to run mongosh, but mongosh --port 27017 returns ECONNREFUSED. It looks like the exec shell is isolated and doesn’t expose the running mongod, so I can’t reset the password from inside the container.

• I also dug through my repo and activity history and couldn’t recover the original password. Every external mongosh attempt still fails with MongoServerError: Authentication failed.

I have clients calling and emailing because they can’t log in, so I’m stuck until the credentials match again.

Can you please rotate the MongoDB root password on the current volume and send me the new value? I’ll immediately update MONGO_URL and redeploy as soon as I receive it. The project is be3f2db8-13c1-4dfb-b758-fbaace10701c (“aware-wisdom”), MongoDB service.

Thanks for helping me get this back online quickly.

Howdy!

Are you able to copy that public mongo URL and connect to it with an external database viewer?

Something like compass.

Want to nail down if this is a mongo password mismatch or some other bug.

I tried connecting externally with the exact MONGO_URL through mongosh on my machine:

nginx

and it still returns MongoServerError: Authentication failed. So a GUI like Compass would hit the same password mismatch.

Everything points to the data volume still holding the original root password from before the suspension. I can’t recover that value and I can’t reach the running mongod to change it myself, so I’m stuck until the password is rotated on your end.

I'm afraid the password cannot be rotated by Railway... can you look for history of where you saved it on your machine perhaps?

Also would love to make sure you know, that key is extremely private and should not be shared publicly. I can delete that message if you would like.

I did that and i couldn't find it unfornunately.

One other thing I'd love for you to test,
First, install the Railway CLI and run railway login then authenticate with your browser.
Second, head to the project and right click the mongo db instance and hit "Copy SSH Command"Head back to your terminal and enter that ssh command. See if that goes through

Thank you

i removed it

Here's what you're going to do.

Go into the MongoDB service and change the start command to:

mongod --ipv6 --bind_ip ::,0.0.0.0 --noauth --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled=false --setParameter enableLocalhostAuthBypass=0

Right click the service and copy the SSH command, paste that into your terminal.

Type the following commands:

mongosh

use admin

db.changeUserPassword("mongo", passwordPrompt())

Change MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD to be this new password.

Exit this window and change your start command back to:

mongod --ipv6 --bind_ip ::,0.0.0.0 --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled=false

Thank you so much

This helped.