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

You'll need to run mongod (the daemon) before you can use mongo (the client), it's easiest to just run it in another shell; These should be in your path if mongo is installed correctly. After that the docs should get you through creating and editing dbs and collections.