mongodb - Creating a database in Mongo: can't connect, get "connect failed"

Question

I want to create a new database in Mongo. However, I'm having trouble connecting:

:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 1.6.5
connecting to: test
Tue Dec 21 18:16:25 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1 (anon):1154
exception: connect failed

How can I connect to mongo in order to create a new database? Alternatively, can I create a new database from the command line?

Slightly surprisingly, the Mongo docs don't seem to cover how to create a database.

Thanks.

Answer 1

In order to open Mongo JavaScript shell, a Listener should be initialized first.

So, first run mongod.exe before running mongo.exe. Both are in the same location(/bin).

There is no separate commands to create a db in mongodb. Just type "use dbname;" in console. Now you have created a db of the name 'dbname'. Now, if you type 'show databases' you cannot see the db name you just created. Because, mongo will not create any db, util you create collection and insert a document into that collection.

Hope this is useful to you!