mongo - couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017

Question

I am coming from riak and redis where I never had an issue with this services starting, or to interact.

This is a pervasive problem with mongo and am rather clueless

Answer 1

A little to late with the answer but I've encountered the same issue

Following are the steps which helped me.

1. Go to C:\
2. Create "data" folder
3. In "data" create "db" folder
4. open terminal (CMD) -> go to EX:"c:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin"
5. type in mongod => this will start mongo server (leave it opened)

Run using a GUI, EX "robomongo"

Or

open new terminal (CMD) -> go to EX:"c:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin" type in "mongo" command