node.js - MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [localhost:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017]

Question

I'm new in nodeJS, started learning by following a trailer on youtube, everything goes well until I added the connect function if mongodb,

mongo.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/mydb")

when I run my code on cmd (node start-app), get the following error,

MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [localhost:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017]

Could someone explain me which step I missed ? my code :

var express = require("express");
var MongoClient = require('mongodb');
var url = "mongodb://localhost:27017/mydb";
var webService = require("./webService");
var server = express();

MongoClient.connect(url, function (err, db) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log("Database created!");
    db.close();
});

server.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

server.set('views', __dirname);

server.get('/', function (request, response) {
    response.sendFile(__dirname + '/MainPage.html');
});

server.get('/Sign', function (request, response) {
    response.render(__dirname + '/Sign.ejs');
});

server.post("/signUp", webService.signUp);

server.post("/createUser", webService.createUser);

server.listen(5500);

Answer 1

Many of them don't add this, especially in AWS EC2 Instance, I had the same issue and tried different solutions. Solution: one of my database URL inside the code was missing this parameter 'authSource', adding this worked for me.

mongodb://myUserName:MyPassword@ElasticIP:27017/databaseName?authSource=admin