mongo - couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017

Question

I am coming from riak and redis where I never had an issue with this services starting, or to interact.

This is a pervasive problem with mongo and am rather clueless

Answer 1

I was getting this error on ubuntu but you can try with the following command:

sudo service mongod start

Answer 2

Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed: SocketException: Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by :: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

This error caused because Mongo Server been closed

Simple Follow these steps

1. Open Task Manager
2. Go to >Services
3. Find MongoDB
4. Right click and select Start

Answer 3

The cause by me was the space - run this in the console:

df -h

or more specifically:

du -hs /var/lib/mongodb/ 

to check he disk usage. If it's ~ 99% - just clean up some space and try again!

Answer 4

I am a windows user and I installed MongoDB in November 2018 and I didn't wanted to setup data/db directories. But after few days, when I open, got an error message:

MongoDB shell version v4.0.4
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017
2018-12-05T20:42:40.108+0530 E QUERY    [js] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed: SocketException: Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by :: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. :
connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:257:13
@(connect):1:6
exception: connect failed

Then I tried to fix using all of above answers and didn't worked. When I tried to run mongod it said

MongoDB starting : pid=12220 port=27017 dbpath=C:\data\db\ 64-bit host=bla

I tried to change the db path(to program files) through file system and also using cmd but those didnot worked.

Solution that worked for me is:

Opened the Task Manager (ctrl + shift + esc) -> Services tab and there was a MongoDB row with the status stopped. Then I right clicked and clicked start and everything working perfectly :).

Answer 5

If all the above solution does not work: go to service (start>search>services) and start mongodb service. Then, in a cmd prompt, after going to bin, type :/>mongo

Answer 6

Start monogdb service using

sudo service mongod start 

then from the new window or terminal start mongo client using

mongo