I have a Bitnami MEAN Stack running on AWS EC2. I'm trying to connect from a remote machine using PyMongo.
from pymongo import MongoClient
conn = MongoClient('mongodb://username:password@ec2blah.us-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com:27017/dbname')
but I keep getting an error along the lines of pymongo.errors.ConnectionFailure: timed out
I have edited /opt/bitnami/mongodb/mongodb.conf to supposedly allow external connections by commenting out bind_ip = 127.0.0.1 and uncommented bind_ip = 0.0.0.0 and all permutations of commenting/uncommenting those lines.
I've looked over the web for about 90 minutes now trying different things but without luck!
On the mongoDB server, do the port connection test, and make sure the DB service running well. If not, start the service.
telnet ec2blah.us-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com 27017
On the remote machine, do the port connection test, to make sure there is no firewall issue.
telnet ec2blah.us-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com 27017
If you have issue to connect, you need check security groups on this instance.
Click the ec2 instance name --> Description --> view rules, you should see the ports are opened
If not, create a new security group , such as `mongoDB`, tcp port 27017 should be opened for inbound traffic, then assign to that instance.
You should be fine to connect it now.