Setup MongoDB on Windows Server 2008

Question

Hi,

I'm new to mongoDB and like it so far, I work local for my dev where I have mongo running as service on Win7. I have it allso running as a service on my VPS on Win server 2008. When I am on the server it works fine but I don't know hos to set it up so I can acces it from outside of the server? Can't find any good documentation on that. Also, I'm having hard time to do backup/restore on the server from my local computer since I can't see it from outside of the server.

I would like to have more information also on the master/slave and hos to set this up properly.

When I run netstat -anb I get

  TCP    127.0.0.1:27017        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
 [mongod.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:27017        127.0.0.1:62990        ESTABLISHED
 [mongod.exe]
  TCP    127.0.0.1:28017        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING

That's all I have for mongod.exe

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

If you can't access it remotely it sounds like a firewall issue. By default mongod listens on port 27017. Is that port accessible from the machine you are trying to connect from? This sounds like more or a firewall issue than an issue with mongod. Can you edit your question to provice the command line the mongo service runs as.

A good source for information on replica sets in this article on Kristina Chodorow's blog.