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How to connect to one-click MEAN stack Mongo DB from Robomongo

I’ve got the MEAN stack droplet one-click image up and running, and I’d like to connect to that database via Robomongo to look at it in a GUI, but Robomongo keeps giving me errors that it can’t connect to the server. it doesn’t even make it to the authentication stage.

I’m pointing Robomongo to <my droplet’s IP>:27017, which has always worked for services like MongoLab.

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literallyelvis • July 31, 2015

I ended up discovering that the answer is to edit your etc/mongod.conf file’s bind_ip variable to include the IP of the computer you’re using, or eliminate it altogether.