Heroku and mongoHQ: Connection failed

Question

I have the following environment variable on Heroku :

MONGOHQ_URL: mongodb://heroku:password%40mongohq%2Estaff%2Ecom:10056/app6186345

Originally the error was :

Database name cannot contain '.'

I escaped '.' and '@'and I still have the same result, a connection failed but with the message :

[Error: failed to connect to [heroku:27017]]

What am I doing wrong?

When I checked the documentation about mongoHQ, nothing is said about escaping caracters or something equivalent.

I don't encode my connection and it works for me. Do you have a . or @ in your password by chance? Also, it's probably a copy/paste, but that url for mongohq is backwards, can you verify that? — blu, Jul 30 '12 at 21:18
Also, if you go to your database in mongohq and click on the Database Info tab there are two samples on how to connect. Does logging in with the mongo shell work? — blu, Jul 30 '12 at 21:19
wow wait, it likes it was the problem, let me check why I had that. — Jeremy D, Jul 30 '12 at 21:22
blu, if you want, put your propositions as an answer and I accept it :) — Jeremy D, Jul 30 '12 at 21:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '12 at 21:28

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It looks like you may have reversed the subdomain and domain name for mongohq on accident.

It should be @staff.mongohq.com instead of @mongohq.staff.com

answered Jul 30 '12 at 21:28

blu

Yes, I agree. That is the issue that you are seeing. I am not sure why it would be working via mongoshell. Can you share output? – Jason McCay Jul 30 '12 at 22:02

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