Today, we are going to install MongoDB in our system. In my case, I am installing it in a Mac OS X system but, the steps are almost the same in other systems.
The first thing to do, it is to go to the MongoDB download web page.
Here, we can find two different download:
- MMS: The Easiest Way to Run MongoDB. We DO NOT need to download this one. It is to manage instances in the cloud.
- Download and Run MongoDB Yourself. This is the one we are going to download. In this moment, the production version is the 3.0.1. We only need to download the adequate file for our system.
The next step is to extract the file. For this, we can use the command:
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Now, MongoDB is installed in our system. But, let’s try if it is working. For this, we are going to use two commands in the /bin folder inside the MongoDB main folder:
So, everytime when I have to start my node apps I often forgot to run my MongoDB service and it is a bit annoying where you have to have one tab dedicated to something you won't touch at all and I thought I should find a way to run this from my startup item on my Mac OS X. MongoDB Installation Tutorial – Windows Linux Mac OSX from Coding compiler.Here you will learn how to install MongoDB on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX machines. MongoDB Installation on the Windows Platform. Let’s start learning about how to install MongoDB on Windows machines. Tar -zxvf mongodb-osx-x8664-3.4.2.tgz. 3 Copy the extracted archive to the target directory.¶ Copy the extracted folder to the location from which MongoDB will run. Mkdir -p mongodb cp -R -n mongodb-osx-x8664-3.4.2/ mongodb 4 Ensure the location of the binaries is in the PATH variable. The MongoDB binaries are in the bin/ directory of the. The app is compatible with various MongoDB versions (2.4, 2.6, 3.0, 3.2) and can automatically detect the one you are using. Run MongoDB commands in a user-friendly GUI Within the Mongo Management Studio user interface, you get to input all the details for connecting to the MongoDB server: you get.
- mongod: It is the daemon that it is going to start our db.
- mongo: It is the shell command to connect to our instance of MongoDB.
Mac Mongodb Client
In this point, you have two options to start your MongoDB instance:
- Start your MongoDB instance as root.
- Create the folder /data/db to store the data from MongoDB.
- Execute the mongod command.
- Start the MongoDB instance in a custom path and using a normal user (I prefer this one)
- Create a folder wherever you want to store the data from MongoDB.
- Execute the mongod command with the option –dpath “dataFolder”. In this case, the MongoDB data is going to be stored in you custom folder and not in the default folder.
Download And Run Mongodb Yourself Mac Miller
After choose an option and run the daemon command, our database should be running. Let´s now try to connect and test if everything is working fine.
Let’s insert a new document:
Let’s check the documents in persons schema:
That’s all. Now, we only need to start to play with MongoDB.
See you.
Note: In the download page, there is a section call “Packages” where you can find MongoDB available for some package managers.