How to listen only localhost on MongoDB

Question

MongoDB suggests that an easy way to handle security is to run it in a reliable environment, given that "in this configuration, one should be sure that only trusted machines can access the TCP ports of the database."

What would be the best approach for this? Is there any way that mongodb could only initially listen to localhost?

I am using ubuntu 10.10

Answer 1

Add the following line to mongodb.conf :

 bind_ip = 127.0.0.1 

As @Josh Rickard stated in the comments: don't forget to restart the process after updating the configuration file:

 service mongodb restart 

Answer 2

As Andreas mentioned in the circle:

 mongod --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 

Answer 3

Note that although it did not appear in the documentation the last time I checked, you can also put this parameter in a .conf file (compared to the command line).

No setting = binding to all ips.

Answer 4

No one mentions the location of the mongodb.conf file, which is /etc/mongodb.conf . Double check before executing the following commands.

 echo "bind_ip = 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/mongodb.conf service mongodb restart