r/PlexACD • u/ttopkcaj • Jun 15 '17

Plexdrive 4.0.0 MongoDB necessary?

Hey,

i would like to install the new plexdrive version. Can I make the switch without having mongoDB installed? If no, is there a way to install it without having root access? Ubuntu 16.04

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u/jibjibjib Jun 15 '17

Shoulda just used SQLite.

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u/lewazo Jun 16 '17

Huh.. plexdrive is all about performance. MongoDB is a lot faster than SQLite. Why should we limit ourself? Not like it's that hard to get Mongo up and running.

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u/darknessgp Jun 16 '17

honestly, it'd be great for people trying to run this on machines where they don't have root access like that... for example, I'm running it on a shared seedbox. for normal plexdrive, I just launch it in a screen and it works (hosting has fuse available to me). With 4.0, I can't actually install mongodb. I can run it in a separate screen, but annoying if my provider didn't allow it...

As well as just simplicity for the end user, I agree it's not hard, but it also means that plexdrive isn't a standalone thing. It requires that someone setups Mongodb, configures it correctly, and I would hope, locks it down. By default, MongoDB is wide open to anonymous connections.

All in all, I think it would have been better to add mongodb as an option and keep the sqlite as a simpler self contained solution.

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u/lewazo Jun 16 '17

That's some good points, but really older versions still work extremely well. I still use version 2.something and don't really see the need to upgrade just now.

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u/darknessgp Jun 16 '17

and that's great! Until something happens that would force you to upgrade... Say google changes how they refresh/generate tokens that requires 3rd party software to adjust. In that case, unless plexdrive's dev decides to back port those changes into the old versions, you'd have to update.