# Failed connecting to mongodb

**URL:** https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/failed-connecting-to-mongodb/863
**Category:** Connecting to NoSQL
**Created:** [February 17, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/failed-connecting-to-mongodb/863 "2015-02-17T19:43:33Z")
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### Author: ![asafp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asafp](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/asafp)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/failed-connecting-to-mongodb/863/1 "2015-02-17T19:43:33Z")

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Hi, im new to dream factory  
im trying to connect to mongo db and i always get the following exception:

“Unexpected MongoDb Service Exception:\nSSL can only be ‘true’ or ‘false’”

How can i resolve this ?

Thanks

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### Author: ![jeffreystables](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jeffreystables/32/173_2.png) [@jeffreystables](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jeffreystables)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/failed-connecting-to-mongodb/863/2 "2015-02-17T20:47:13Z")

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I moved a post to an existing topic: [MongoDB Service Exceptoin](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/mongodb-service-exceptoin/821)