Unable to connect MongoDB Compass to AWS DocumentDB using SSH tunnel

Question

I am new to mongoDB trying to setup tools for my new project. Most of my infrastructure run on AWS so i prefer to use AWS documentDB. I manage to connect to documentDB from EC2 both via mongo client or NodeJS aplication. but it would be good to mange documentDB from my Windows workstation using MongoDB Compass.

As we know, we can not direct connect any mongo client from outside AWS to DocumentDB (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/connect-from-outside-a-vpc.html) so we need SSH tunnel through EC2. I try many options but still fail... below are most likely 2 options

Option 1: Connect using MongoDB Compass SSH tunnel

Error: unable to get local issuer certificate

both RDS-COMBINED-CA-BUNDLE.PEM and SSH Key already supplied so which one unable to get ?

as red highlight on SSH port, I also tried to open another SSHD port on server and tried to connect using second port but still failed.

Option 2: Connect using Putty SSH tunnel

Error: Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames...

since MongoDB Compass need to connect to locathost to get into tunnel and i still can not find the way to supply --sslAllowInvalidHostnames options.

So, what i can do to get around this ?

MongoDB Compass: 1.25.0

Thanks in advance for any help.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65950433/unable-to-connect-mongodb-compass-to-aws-documentdb-using-ssh-tunnel

Answer 1

For Hostname, are you using DocumentDB endpoint? In one screenshot, I see you are using localhost.

I have managed to connect with option 1.