diff --git a/tools/run-mongo.js b/tools/run-mongo.js
index d04744fd59..df444db9cc 100644
--- a/tools/run-mongo.js
+++ b/tools/run-mongo.js
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ var spawnMongod = function (mongodPath, port, dbPath, replSetName) {
       // order of the arguments! Check them before changing any arguments.
       '--bind_ip', '127.0.0.1',
       '--smallfiles',
-      '--nohttpinterface',
       '--port', port,
       '--dbpath', dbPath,
       // Use an 8MB oplog rather than 256MB. Uses less space on disk and
diff --git a/tools/tests/old/cli-test.sh b/tools/tests/old/cli-test.sh
index 6d6a88480a..a467af65e0 100755
--- a/tools/tests/old/cli-test.sh
+++ b/tools/tests/old/cli-test.sh
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ tar tvzf "$DIR.tar.gz" >>$OUTPUT
 cd .. # we're now back to $DIR
 echo "... run"
 
-MONGOMARK='--bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --smallfiles --nohttpinterface --port 9101'
+MONGOMARK='--bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --smallfiles --port 9101'
 # kill any old test meteor
 # there is probably a better way to do this, but it is at least portable across macos and linux
 # (the || true is needed on linux, whose xargs will invoke kill even with no args)