Why is PyMongo 3 giving ServerSelectionTimeoutError?

Question

I\'m using:

• Python 3.4.2
• PyMongo 3.0.2
• mongolab running mongod 2.6.9
• uWSGI 2.0.10
• CherryPy 3.7.0
• nginx 1.6.2

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue during development. It was due to the fact that mongodb wasn't running on my local machine (sudo systemctl restart mongod to get mongodb running on Ubuntu).