Mongoengine: ConnectionError: You have not defined a default connection

Question

In my new Django project I set up a MongoDb database and use mongoengine module but I can\'t properly access to dabase nore in shell no in views. \"ConnectionError: You have

Answer 1

In your settings.py file replace:

mongoengine.connect(_MONGODB_NAME, 'localhost:27017')

with the below code (notice the added 'host='):

mongoengine.connect(_MONGODB_NAME, host='localhost:27017')