Connect to mongoDb Bitnami server hosted on Amazon EC2 - php

Question

So I have written a basic program with PHP and MongoDB and I tested it locally using xampp. This all works fine. Now I want to publish it as a website.
After some research I decided to use Bitnami and I am running an EC2 server on Amazon. I am able to ssh and run commands from the terminal. Now I want to connect to the server and create a Mongo client. I am a bit puzzled and do not know how to do this exactly. I am using the code below. The ssh works fine but I do not know how to set up the mongo client. The '$m = new MongoClient();' works fine locally for localhost, I have also tried to supply to MongoClient my username and password but without success. Thank you very much for any help!
include('Net/SSH2.php');
include('Crypt/RSA.php');
$key = new Crypt_RSA();
$key->loadKey(file_get_contents('../../etc/bitnami.pem'));
$ssh = new Net_SSH2('ip_address');
if (!$ssh->login('bitnami', $key)) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
$ssh->exec('mongo admin --username root -p <myPassword>');
$m = new MongoClient();
$db = $m->mydb;
echo "Database mydb selected";
$collection = $db->mycol;
echo "Collection selected succsessfully";
$document = array(
"title" => "MongoDB",
"description" => "database"
);
$collection->insert($document);
Update answer to Jota Martos (unable to write it as comment):
Hi, thank you for your answer. Yes for now I allow access from all ports and IP's for test purposes. I can successfully connect via ssh but now I am stuck. I am running a Mean bitnami application and my website is running on GoDaddy server under PHP. So I want to connect with PHP to my mongoDB bitnami app that is hosted on AWS. So now the problem is that on my GoDaddy server mongoDB is not installed. So running the following code does not work:
$m = new MongoDB\Driver\Manager("mongodb://${bitnami}:${AWSpassword}#hostIp");
Fatal error: Class 'MongoDB\Driver\Manager' not found.
So my question how do I connect with PHP from my GoDaddy server to the EC2 Amazon server and connect to Bitnami mongoDB account. Should I first setup an ssh connection to the server and then try to login to mongoDB server or how should I connect?
Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

Answer 1

According to php.net the function that is used is Deprecated, refer this.
Can you try something like:
<?php
$manager = new MongoDB\Driver\Manager("mongodb://myusername:myp%40ss%3Aw%25rd#example.com/mydatabase");
?>
Refer this

Answer 2

Hi Bitnami Engineer here,
Apart from this tip, please note that the database port for the nodes in this solution cannot be accessed over a public IP address by default. For security reasons, we do not recommend making the database port accessible over a public IP address.
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/mongodb/#how-to-connect-to-mongodb-from-a-different-machine
You can open the MongoDB port in the server by accessing the AWS console and modifying the access group configuration
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/faq/#how-to-open-the-server-ports-for-remote-access
You will also need to modify the MongoDB configuration file (/opt/bitnami/mongodb/mongodb.conf) to allow the database to not to work only on 127.0.0.1.
Regards,
Jota

Answer 3

If you are looking to connect a tool like Studio 3T to a remote Mongodb instance built using bitnami AMI you can follow the steps below:
1. Open inbound port 27017 on instance security group.
2. Open Instance log of the instance and find the password for user root.
3. Open Studio 3T, server name is instance public ip and port 27017.
4. Got to Authentication and select basic and put in the user as root and password as obtained from instance log.
Click on Test Connection, it should work.