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

If all the above solution does not work: go to service (start>search>services) and start mongodb service. Then, in a cmd prompt, after going to bin, type :/>mongo