MongoDB on a Windows 7 machine: No connection could be made

After I have started Mongo using mongod.exe on a Windows 7 machine, I tried to start the mongo shell that failed with the error:

Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:10061 No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

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Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1), connection attempt failed at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:146 exception: connect failed

In the CMD where I running the mongod the output is:

C:\Users\Vera>mongod --dbpath c:\mongodb\mongodata

2014-05-18T17:10:10.135-0300 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=3296 port=27017 dbpath=c:\mongodb\mongodata 64-bit host=Vera-PC

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] targetMinOS: Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] db version v2.6.1

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] git version: 4b95b086d2374bdcfcdf2249272fb552c9c726e8

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] build info: windows sys.getwindowsversion(major=6, minor=1, build=7601, platform=2, service_pack='Service Pack 1')

BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] allocator: system

2014-05-18T17:10:10.136-0300 [initandlisten] options: { storage: { dbPath: "c:\mongodb\mongodata" } }

2014-05-18T17:10:10.242-0300 [initandlisten] journal dir=c:\mongodb\mongodata\journal

2014-05-18T17:10:10.243-0300 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed

2014-05-18T17:10:11.077-0300 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

Any suggestion how to fix this issue?

I got the same error and fixed it with:

1) mkdir c:\data

2) cd data

3) mongod -dbpath .

4) Now in another command window I was able to connect from my client using the mongo command.

I got this problem. What fixed mine is:

1. Suppose you have a dir: "C:\mongo_databse"

2. Open Command Prompt and type (suppose you haved added the Mongo bin directory to PATH): mongod --dbpath=C:/mongo_database. There will be some log to the command prompt.

3. Now open ANOTHER command prompt then type in mongo then it works.