Connection to MongoDB fails

Question

I tried to connect to a local MongoDB instance, but it failed with error message Failed to connect.

I have run the commands shown in the below screenshots. The error message is shown there, too.

My folder structure is:

D:/mongodb/bin
D:/mongodb/data/db
D:/mongodb/log

I am using 32-bit Windows7.

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30235200/mongodb-data-directory-data-db-not-found/30235233#30235233 — Nachiket Kate, Aug 30 '15 at 18:57
Added some formatting to the question, slightly improved case and removed "thanks". — stj, Aug 30 '15 at 19:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '15 at 17:12

Your data directory doesn't exist where MongoDB is expecting it to be.

For simplicity you can create D:/data/db, which is the default location and where mongod is looking at the moment, and use this as your data directory.

Alternatively if you want to use D:/mongodb/data/db as the data directory you'll need to specify the dbPath when starting mongod

mongod --dbpath D:/mongodb/data/db

This can also be done in a configuration file.

Connection to MongoDB fails

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