Mongodb : ‘Connect failed’ error

Learning Mongodb these days, and encountered this error when starting the mongodb client.



The problem here is that, the mongod daemon has to be started first.The steps to do so is

Ubuntu/Debian
Execute the following command in the terminal
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb start

Fedora/RedHat
$ su
Now, switch to the directory where mongo was installed, and execute the following command in the terminal
# mongodb-linux-xxxx-1.6.x/bin/mongod

This should get the daemon up and running, the normal procedure for starting the mongodb client should then be followed.