Summary

The django-mongodb-project template currently hardcodes the MongoDB connection URI. It should fall back to os.getenv("MONGODB_URI", "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017") so that:

• Developers can point at any MongoDB instance by setting MONGODB_URI in their environment (e.g. Atlas, a remote dev cluster, Docker)
• The default mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 is used when no env var is set, preserving current local-dev behavior

Change

In project_name/settings/base.py, replace the hardcoded URI with:

import os

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "django_mongodb_backend",
        "HOST": os.getenv("MONGODB_URI", "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017"),
    }
}

(Adjust field name — HOST or NAME — to match however the current settings parse the URI via django-mongodb-backend.)

Acceptance Criteria

• Setting MONGODB_URI=mongodb+srv://... in the environment connects to that cluster
• Omitting MONGODB_URI defaults to mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017