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

If your bind_ip is set to anything other than 127.0.0.1 then you'll need to add the ip explicitly even from the local machine. So simply use the same method that you're using on the remote box on the local box. At least that's what did it for me.