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

Another solution that resolved this same error for me, though this one might only be if you are accessing mongo (locally) via a SSH connection via a virtual machine (at least that's my setup), and may be a linux specific environment variable issue:

export LC_ALL=C

Also, I have had more success running mongo as a daemon service then with sudo service start, my understanding is this uses command line arguments rather then the config file so it likely is an issue with my config file:

mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log --auth --port 27017 --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb/admin