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

I had the same error when connecting to Mongo on AWS EC2 . This is what solved it https://serverfault.com/a/347159/62381 Remove the bind_ip from the config file