Connection string settings not available (tracking.contact)

Question

I am getting below error in my sitecore application.

Exception: System.InvalidOperationException Message: Connection string settings not available (tracking.contact) Source: Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB at Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataAccess.MongoDb.MongoDbDriver.FromConnectionString(String connectionStringName) at Sitecore.Analytics.Data.MongoDb.ProcessingPool.MongoDbProcessingPool..ctor(String connectionStringName)

Steps I did so far:

I verified the connection string seems no issue with that. Verified my mongodb port settings as well as mongodb is running

Any one can help with the issue I am facing?

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Make sure, that you have

<add name="tracking.contact" connectionString="mongodb://..."/>

in your ConnectionStrings.config. If yes - check next:

1) Try to connect with this "mongodb://..." connectionstring to collection by using RoboMongo or any other UI software and check that collections are really exist in mongodb.

2) Check versions of Sitecore and MongoDB that you use:

• Sitecore 8 Update 5 supports MongoDB 3.0
• older Sitecore versions support MongoDB 2.6.x and MongoDB.Driver.dll version 1.8.3.9

Tip: you can immitate this error by checking your connection programmatically:

var connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["tracking.contact"].ToString();
try
{
  var driver = MongoDbDriver.FromConnectionString(connectionString);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
  // debug here if exception throw
}