Creating a database in Mongo: can't connect, get “connect failed”

Question

I want to create a new database in Mongo. However, I\'m having trouble connecting:

:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 1.6.5
connecting to: test
Tue Dec 21 18:         


        

Answer 1

First you'll need to run mongod on one terminal. Then fire up another terminal and type mongo. This shall open the mongo shell. You also need to create /data/db/ where mongo will store your databases.