How to listen only to localhost on MongoDB

Question

MongoDB Suggests that the easy way to handle security is to run it in a trusted environment, given that, \"in such a configuration, one must be sure only trusted machines ca

Answer 1

Note that although it didn't appear in the documentation last time I checked, you can also put this setting in the .conf file (vs. command line).

No setting = bind to all ips.

Answer 2

As Andreas mentioned in a round-about way:

mongod --bind_ip 127.0.0.1

Answer 3

Add the following line into mongodb.conf:

bind_ip = 127.0.0.1

As @Josh Rickard stated in comments: don't forget to restart the process after updating the config file:

service mongodb restart

Answer 4

No one mentioned the location of the mongodb.conf file which is /etc/mongodb.conf. Double check before running the following commands.

echo "bind_ip = 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/mongodb.conf
service mongodb restart