From 7ad4420b6ac205216291f7dc96017b2cb29a4aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <baris@nodebb.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:09:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] closes #6000

---
 install/databases.js  |  3 ++-
 src/database/mongo.js | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/install/databases.js b/install/databases.js
index 6a8d68d633..b55fa8ad0c 100644
--- a/install/databases.js
+++ b/install/databases.js
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ function getDatabaseConfig(config, callback) {
 			prompt.get(questions.redis, callback);
 		}
 	} else if (config.database === 'mongo') {
-		if (config['mongo:host'] && config['mongo:port']) {
+		if ((config['mongo:host'] && config['mongo:port']) || config['mongo:uri']) {
 			callback(null, config);
 		} else {
 			prompt.get(questions.mongo, callback);
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ function saveDatabaseConfig(config, databaseConfig, callback) {
 			username: databaseConfig['mongo:username'],
 			password: databaseConfig['mongo:password'],
 			database: databaseConfig['mongo:database'],
+			uri: databaseConfig['mongo:uri'],
 		};
 	} else {
 		return callback(new Error('unknown database : ' + config.database));
diff --git a/src/database/mongo.js b/src/database/mongo.js
index c79ee81bdc..fbe4b38a03 100644
--- a/src/database/mongo.js
+++ b/src/database/mongo.js
@@ -8,37 +8,52 @@ var nconf = require('nconf');
 var session = require('express-session');
 var _ = require('lodash');
 var semver = require('semver');
+var prompt = require('prompt');
 var db;
 
 var mongoModule = module.exports;
 
+function isUriNotSpecified() {
+	return !prompt.history('mongo:uri').value;
+}
+
 mongoModule.questions = [
+	{
+		name: 'mongo:uri',
+		description: 'MongoDB connection URI: (leave blank if you wish to specify host, port, username/password and database individually)\nFormat: mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,host2[:port2],...[,hostN[:portN]]][/[database][?options]]',
+		default: nconf.get('mongo:uri') || '',
+	},
 	{
 		name: 'mongo:host',
 		description: 'Host IP or address of your MongoDB instance',
 		default: nconf.get('mongo:host') || '127.0.0.1',
+		ask: isUriNotSpecified,
 	},
 	{
 		name: 'mongo:port',
 		description: 'Host port of your MongoDB instance',
 		default: nconf.get('mongo:port') || 27017,
+		ask: isUriNotSpecified,
 	},
 	{
 		name: 'mongo:username',
 		description: 'MongoDB username',
 		default: nconf.get('mongo:username') || '',
+		ask: isUriNotSpecified,
 	},
 	{
 		name: 'mongo:password',
 		description: 'Password of your MongoDB database',
-		hidden: true,
 		default: nconf.get('mongo:password') || '',
+		hidden: true,
+		ask: isUriNotSpecified,
 		before: function (value) { value = value || nconf.get('mongo:password') || ''; return value; },
 	},
 	{
 		name: 'mongo:database',
 		description: 'MongoDB database name',
 		default: nconf.get('mongo:database') || 'nodebb',
+		ask: isUriNotSpecified,
 	},
 ];