From 6949720de92ff5083cd5a4833ce8201b76965477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brayden Girard <brayden@daydreamdev.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:00:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Updated for MLab example configuration

---
 .../3.x.x/en/configurations/configurations.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/3.x.x/en/configurations/configurations.md b/docs/3.x.x/en/configurations/configurations.md
index 3e4ccb8556..d16d15c261 100644
--- a/docs/3.x.x/en/configurations/configurations.md
+++ b/docs/3.x.x/en/configurations/configurations.md
@@ -246,6 +246,33 @@ Most of the application's configurations are defined by environment. It means th
 
 > Please refer to the [dynamic configurations section](#dynamic-configurations) to use global environment variable to configure the databases.
 
+#### MLab Example
+
+**Path —** `./config/environments/**/database.json`.
+```json
+{
+  "defaultConnection": "default",
+  "connections": {
+    "default": {
+      "connector": "strapi-hook-mongoose",
+      "settings": {
+        "client": "mongo",
+        "host": "ds123456.mlab.com",
+        "port": 12345,
+        "database": "mlab_db_name",
+        "username": "mlab_user_name",
+        "password": "mlab_pass"
+      },
+      "options": {
+        "authenticationDatabase": "mlab_db_name",
+        "ssl": false
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+> Please note that you must give your MLab database name as the authenticationDatabase and your password can not contain the "@" symbol.