Setting up CentOS firewall for remote MongoVUE GUI access

Question

I'm trying to set-up MongoVUE to connect to a networked server running MongoDB. I can connect to it very easily either via SSHing in Putty or using mongo ip:port in windows command line.

However, when setting up a connection via MongoVUE's SSH tunnel, I get the error:

Unable to connect to server 127.0.0.1:5252: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:5252.

So I assume there's something wrong with the firewall configuration.

However, my /etc/sysconfig/iptables contains the line:

-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 27017 -j ACCEPT

What else should be in place to let this connect?

Here is the MongoVue SSH configuration:

Answer 1

I had to use a little trick to make built-in "SSH Tunnel" work.

It turns out that default IP for a localhost in Windows 7 is Ipv6 address, so you have to add (or just un-comment) the following line into your \System32\drivers\etc\hosts file

127.0.0.1       localhost

And configure Mongovue connection as follows (with your IP for sure):

• Settings:
• SSH Tunnel:

Notice the same IP on both tabs

Answer 2

I get the same error using the built-in SSH feature of MongoVUE.

I suspect that this is a bug in MongoVUE. I was able to get SSH to work using Putty following the instructions at http://www.mongovue.com/2011/08/04/mongovue-connection-to-remote-server-over-ssh/.

Below is Putty Tunnel configuration: Putty configured to listen on 5151 and then connect to 27017 on remote system (MongoD).