Mongo Server installation with Config file(BackGround run)

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install MongoDB on Windows.

1. MongoDB 2.2.3
2. Windows 7

1. Download MongoDB

Download MongoDB from official MongoDB website. Choose Windows 32 bits or 64 bits. Unzip, extracts to your prefer location, for example : d:\mongodb\.

2. Configuration File

Create a MongoDB config file, it’s just a text file, for example : d:\mongodb\mongo.config

Enter the below entries

dbpath=D:\mongodb\data

##all output go here
logpath=D:\mongodb\log\mongo.log

##Run mongo server in background
fork=true

NOTE:
MongoDB need a folder (data directory) to store its data. By default, it will store in “C:\data\db“,
create this folder manually. MongoDB won’t create it for you. You can also specify an alternate data directory with --dbpathoption.


3.Run MongoDB server

Use mongod.exe --config d:\mongodb\mongo.config to start MongoDB server.

For eg :-
d:\mongodb\bin>mongod --config D:\mongodb\mongo.config
all output going to: D:\mongodb\log\mongo.log

You Should get message something like below
about to fork child process, waiting until server is ready for connections.
forked process: <PID for mongo server>

4.Connect to MongoDB Server (by running client)

Above command on step 3 has started mongo server and it ready to receive connection from client.

Open new terminal and direct to bin folder of mongodb which was installed and run below command.

d:\mongodb\bin>mongo
 MongoDB shell version: 2.2.3
  connecting to: test
> //mongodb shell

on Server terminal you can see below message that it has received one connection.

2016-05-15T16:43:12.679+0530 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] connection accepted from 127.0.0.1:62866 #1 (1 connection now open)