NodeJS + Express + Mongo Session storage

Question

I am currently having a hell of time trying to store sessions in MongoDb.

I\'ve tried express-session-mongo and connect-mongodb and both give me the same \"500 internal

Answer 1

It ended being a problem of the various modules: connect-session-mongo / express-session-mongo / connect-mongo, using connect 2.0.1 and Express using connect 1.8.5.

Apparently the dependency clash here prevented the session store modules to access the 'req.secret' property.

To make it work I ended using the module connect-mongodb that is still using connect 1.8.5, just like Express.

The reason I couldn't make connect-mongodb work before though was user error, I tried too hard to use copy/paste from online examples instead of my head.

Here is the configuration code that ended up working for me with connect-mongodb:

var Session = require('connect-mongodb');

app.configure('production', function(){
  var oneWeek = 657450000;
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/../public', { maxAge: oneWeek }));

  var session = express.session({
        store: new Session({
              url: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test', 
              maxAge: 300000
        }),
        secret: 'superTopSecret' 
  });
  app.use(session);

  app.use(mongooseAuth.middleware());
  app.use(require('./mySite').middleware());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(express.errorHandler());  
});

Hope this helps anyone else who runs into this issue. If you have any suggestion/improvement on this solution, I'd be glad to hear it. :)