Question

I am having issues getting mongodb working with Django, my setup is Mac OS X 10.7. I followed the tutorial available here: http://django-mongodb.org/topics/setup.html . I have tried with both virtualenv and without (this is my first time installing django so I shouldn’t have any conflicts).

In settings.py

DATABASES = {
   'default' : {
      'ENGINE' : 'django_mongodb_engine',
      'NAME' : 'my_database'
   }
}

In firstapp.models.py

from django.db import models
from djangotoolbox.fields import ListField

class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField()
    text = models.TextField()
    tags = ListField()
    comments = ListField()

In my shell (python manage.py shell), I try running:

from mydjango.firstapp.models import Post
post = Post.objects.create();

But I keep getting the following: DatabaseError: could not connect to localhost:27017: [Errno 61] Connection refused (full traceback)

If I switch settings.py to the following:

DATABASES = {  
    'default': {  
        'ENGINE': 'django_mongodb_engine',  
        'NAME': 'my_database',  
        'USER': '',  
        'PASSWORD': '',  
        'HOST': 'localhost',  
        'PORT': '27017',  
        'SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS': False,  
    },  
} 

I get this error in the shell: ImproperlyConfigured: port must be an instance of int

Answer 1

Did you setup MongoDB separately? The howto you link doesn’t seem to go over the MongoDB configuration. It assumes the database is already running. In any case MongoDB seems down, or is at least listening somewhere else.

The last error (“…instance of int”) is just because you specified '27017' (a string) instead of 27017 in the configuration dictionary. But even then it should be equivalent to the first, simpler configuration.