diff --git a/server/.github/test.conf.json5 b/server/.github/test.conf.json5
index 4265d9963..84f98670a 100644
--- a/server/.github/test.conf.json5
+++ b/server/.github/test.conf.json5
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 // Config file that the CI deployment uses. This is moved to $pwd/conf.json5 before CI tests are ran.
 
 {
-  MONGO_BASE_URL: "127.0.0.1",
+  MONGO_CONNECTION_URL: "127.0.0.1:27017",
+  MONGO_DATABASE_NAME: "testingdb",
   LOG_LEVEL: "info",
   CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY: "unused",
   SESSION_SECRET: "unused",
diff --git a/server/src/external/mongo/db.ts b/server/src/external/mongo/db.ts
index 35139c420..7dcd96706 100644
--- a/server/src/external/mongo/db.ts
+++ b/server/src/external/mongo/db.ts
@@ -27,16 +27,13 @@ import {
     ImportLockDocument,
 } from "tachi-common";
 import monk from "monk";
-import { MONGO_BASE_URL } from "../../lib/setup/config";
+import { MONGO_CONNECTION_URL, MONGO_DATABASE_NAME } from "../../lib/setup/config";
 import CreateLogCtx from "../../lib/logger/logger";
 import { OrphanScoreDocument } from "../../lib/score-import/import-types/common/types";
 
 const logger = CreateLogCtx(__filename);
 
-/* istanbul ignore next */
-const base = MONGO_BASE_URL ?? "127.0.0.1";
-
-let dbName = "ktblackdb";
+let dbName = MONGO_DATABASE_NAME;
 
 /* istanbul ignore next */
 if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "test") {
@@ -47,16 +44,14 @@ if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "test") {
     }
 }
 
-const url = `mongodb://${base}:27017/${dbName}`;
-
 let dbtime: [number, number] = [0, 0];
 /* istanbul ignore next */
 if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "test") {
-    logger.info(`Connecting to database ${url}...`);
+    logger.info(`Connecting to database ${MONGO_CONNECTION_URL}/${dbName}...`);
     dbtime = process.hrtime();
 }
 
-export const monkDB = monk(url);
+export const monkDB = monk(`${MONGO_CONNECTION_URL}/${dbName}`);
 
 /* istanbul ignore next */
 monkDB
diff --git a/server/src/lib/setup/config.ts b/server/src/lib/setup/config.ts
index 9a979b986..c3f456676 100644
--- a/server/src/lib/setup/config.ts
+++ b/server/src/lib/setup/config.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ function isValidURL(self: unknown) {
 }
 
 export interface TachiConfig {
-    MONGO_BASE_URL: string;
+    MONGO_CONNECTION_URL: string;
+    MONGO_DATABASE_NAME: string;
     LOG_LEVEL: "debug" | "verbose" | "info" | "warn" | "error" | "severe" | "crit";
     CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY: string;
     SESSION_SECRET: string;
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ export interface TachiConfig {
 }
 
 const err = p(config, {
-    MONGO_BASE_URL: "string",
+    MONGO_CONNECTION_URL: "string",
+    MONGO_DATABASE_NAME: "string",
     LOG_LEVEL: p.isIn("debug", "verbose", "info", "warn", "error", "severe", "crit"),
     CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY: "string",
     SESSION_SECRET: "string",
@@ -98,7 +100,8 @@ if (config.TYPE === "ktchi") {
 
 const tachiConfig = config as TachiConfig;
 
-export const MONGO_BASE_URL = tachiConfig.MONGO_BASE_URL;
+export const MONGO_CONNECTION_URL = tachiConfig.MONGO_CONNECTION_URL;
+export const MONGO_DATABASE_NAME = tachiConfig.MONGO_DATABASE_NAME;
 export const LOG_LEVEL = tachiConfig.LOG_LEVEL;
 export const SESSION_SECRET = tachiConfig.SESSION_SECRET;
 export const CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY = tachiConfig.CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY;