[ Node.js failing to connect to MongoDB ]

I am new to both Node.js and MongoDB. I am following this guide: http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb to create a simple blog with Node.js and MongoDB.

When node tries to connect to MongoDB, it is failing and I have no idea why.

In my app.js file i have:

var articleProvider = new ArticleProvider('127.0.0.1', 27107);

In my articleprovider-mongodb.js file I have

var Db = require('mongodb').Db;
var Connection = require('mongodb').Connection;
var Server = require('mongodb').Server;
var BSON = require('mongodb').BSON;
var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;

ArticleProvider = function(host, port) {
  this.db = new Db('node-mongo-blog', new Server(host, port, {auto_reconnect: true}, {}));
  this.db.open(function(err){
    if(err) {
      console.log(err);
    }
  });
};

In my terminal I get:

9 Aug 10:48:19 - [nodemon] starting node app.js [Error: failed to connect to [127.0.0.1:27107]]

I am running node.js v0.8.6 and mongodb v2.0.6

I have other code in these files but from what I can see it shouldn't effect the db connection.

Answer 1

That happens when the mongod process is not running or you're connecting to the wrong host/ip.

Do you have it running on your localhost and if so can you access it from your from the mongo shell?

Try to test it with a minimum version of an app with node, express and the mongodb nodejs driver.

I tested it with these files:

• http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb/articleprovider-mongodb.js
• http://howtonode.org/express-mongodb/app.js

And it worked fine, except for the last two lines of app.js, because of express 3.x instead of 2.x used in the example.

var server = app.listen(3000);
console.log("Express server listening on port %d in %s mode", server.address().port, app.settings.env);