Connection refused when trying to run ./install.py

[Timothy Dillan]

Hi!

I'm trying to install airnotifier on my VPS so that I'll be able to integrate push notification with my customized moodle app. The Moodle is also hosted on the same VPS. I'm pretty new to web development stuff so please forgive me for that.

So far, I've followed: https://github.com/airnotifier/airnotifier/wiki/Installation-3.x successfully until the part where we're supposed to set up an initial user: pipenv run ./install.py, but I keep on getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/airnotifier/install.py", line 64, in <module>
    collection_names = masterdb.collection_names()
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/airnotifier--hHQdAqd/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pymongo/database.py", line 552, in collection_names
    ReadPreference.PRIMARY) as (sock_info, slave_okay):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/airnotifier--hHQdAqd/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pymongo/mongo_client.py", line 904, in _socket_for_reads
    with self._get_socket(read_preference) as sock_info:
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/airnotifier--hHQdAqd/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pymongo/mongo_client.py", line 868, in _get_socket
    server = self._get_topology().select_server(selector)
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/airnotifier--hHQdAqd/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pymongo/topology.py", line 214, in select_server
    address))
  File "/root/.local/share/virtualenvs/airnotifier--hHQdAqd/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pymongo/topology.py", line 189, in select_servers
    self._error_message(selector))
pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError: localhost:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

Any help is appreciated.

[Timothy Dillan]

My bad. After searching around, seems like I needed to run:
sudo systemctl unmask mongod
then,
sudo service mongod start
and then run the install command.