MongoDB replica set preventing queries to secondary

You have to run the command rs.slaveOk() in the secondary server's shell.

rs.slaveOk() run in the mongo shell will allow you to read from secondaries. Here is a demonstration using the mongo shell under MongoDB 2.4.3:

$ mongo --port 27017
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.3
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:27017/test
replset:PRIMARY> db.foo.save({})
replset:PRIMARY> db.foo.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("51bf5dbd473d5e80fc095b17") }
replset:PRIMARY> exit

$ mongo --port 27018
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.3
connecting to: 127.0.0.1:27018/test
replset:SECONDARY> db.foo.find()
error: { "$err" : "not master and slaveOk=false", "code" : 13435 }
replset:SECONDARY> rs.slaveOk()
replset:SECONDARY> db.foo.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("51bf5dbd473d5e80fc095b17") }
replset:SECONDARY> db.foo.count()
1