MongoDB running but can't connect using shell

Question

CentOS 5.x Linux with MongoDB 2.0.1 (tried main and legacy-static)

MongoDB is running:

root     31664  1.5  1.4  81848 11148 ?        Sl   18:40   0:         


        

Answer 1

By default, mongodb is configured to listen only to localhost. Excerpt from mongodb default config file :

# Listen to local interface only. Comment out to listen on all interfaces.
bind_ip=127.0.0.1

One needs to comment the bind_ip to listen from external entities.

You wont be able to add shards unless you start listening on non-local interfaces.

HTH,

Abhay Dandekar