MongoDB on a Windows 7 machine: No connection could be made

Question

After I have started Mongo using mongod.exe on a Windows 7 machine, I tried to start the mongo shell that failed with the error:

Failed to connect to

Answer 1

I got this problem. What fixed mine is:

1. Suppose you have a dir: "C:\mongo_databse"

2. Open Command Prompt and type (suppose you haved added the Mongo bin directory to PATH): mongod --dbpath=C:/mongo_database. There will be some log to the command prompt.

3. Now open ANOTHER command prompt then type in mongo then it works.