Mongodb: failed to connect to server on first connect

Question

I get the following error:

Warning { MongoError: failed to connect to server [mongodb:27017] on first connect
    at Pool. (/Users/michaelks         


        

Answer 1

I ran into this issue serval times, and here is some troubleshooting list

1. make sure database path is exist, the default path in windows in C:\data\db
2. make sure mongo is running, to run it go to C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin and run the following:
   1. mongod.exe
   2. mongo.exe
3. make sure that your connection string is correct like mongodb://localhost/database-name