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Bitnami Mongodb timeout from local network

I setup a vmware ESXI 7.0.2 on a server machine.

In Vmware i installed a bitnami mongodb virtual machine Using this link With mongodb console, i'm able to reach mongodb within vmware ESXI using the following command: mongo admin --username root -p When i log in, everything works fine.

From now on, i want to reach this mongodb from an other machine on the same network with the following connection string: mongodb://192.168.10.110:27017

In order to reach it, iam using MongoDB Compass and initiating a New Connection. Even if i put the credentials into the connection string ( which iam using to log in to mongodb from bitnami console ) like this: mongodb://[username]:[password]192.168.10.110:27017 the connection is timed out always.

In the bitnami console, when i start the virtual machine, the console says that i can reach it with this IP, which is from DHCP.

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If i log in to mongo i see this on the console:

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So i can connect to mongodb within bitnami console, but not from outside VMWARE but inside the same network.

EDIT: Tried using with NodeJS from the same machine which runs MongoDB Compass, but this results in a timeout too.

Solution

  • It turned out that i had to open the port for the mongodb to be able to access it from "outside" it's network.

    I just went and enabled the firewall first:

    sudo systemctl enable ufw
sudo ufw status

    started it:

    sudo systemctl start ufw

    and opened the port

    sudo ufw allow 27017

    All is working fine. My bad.