NodeJS + Express + Mongo Session storage - session

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 server error" when I try to load the login page. Which leads me to think maybe there is a conflict with mongoose-auth somewhere.
Anyway here is my setup:
app.js:
var MongoStore = require('connect-mongodb');
var MongoDb = require('mongodb').Db;
var Server = require('mongodb').Server;
var db = new MongoDb('myDb', new Server('localhost', 27017, {auto_reconnect: true, native_parser: false}));
app.configure(function() {
app.use(express.logger({format: 'dev'}));
app.set('views', __dirname + '/../views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.set('view options', { layout: false });
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(mongooseAuth.middleware());
app.use(require('./mysite').middleware());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
});
app.configure('production', function(){
var oneWeek = 657450000;
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/../public', { maxAge: oneWeek }));
app.use(express.session({ store: new MongoStore({db: db}), secret: 'super secret' }));
app.use(express.errorHandler());
});
// Routes
require('./routing.js');
mongooseAuth.helpExpress(app);
app.listen(3000);
console.log('Express server listening on port %d in %s mode', app.address().port, app.settings.env);
userModel.js
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var mongooseTypes = require("mongoose-types");
var mongooseAuth = require('mongoose-auth');
mongooseTypes.loadTypes(mongoose);
var everyauth = require('everyauth')
everyauth.debug = true;
var UserSchema = new Schema({any: {}});
UserSchema.plugin(mongooseAuth, {
everymodule: {
everyauth: {
User: function () {
return User;
}
}
}
, password: {
loginWith: 'email'
, extraParams: {
phone: String
, username: String
}
, everyauth: {
getLoginPath: '/login'
, postLoginPath: '/login'
, loginView: 'account/login.jade'
, getRegisterPath: '/register'
, postRegisterPath: '/register'
, registerView: 'account/register.jade'
, loginSuccessRedirect: '/login/success'
, registerSuccessRedirect: '/register/success'
}
}
});
mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);
User = mongoose.model('User');
At this moment in time I'm really just trying to use MongoDb as the session store, but again I get a 500 error w/ no information whatsoever in the node.js console when I try to load the login page.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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. :)

Answer 2

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
const session = require('express-session')
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const MongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(session);
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/my-database', {
useMongoClient: true
});
mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
const db = mongoose.connection
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({
secret: 'my-secret',
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: true,
store: new MongoStore({ mongooseConnection: db })
}));