Set Up MongoDB on Windows
Download the MongoDB binary archive For Windows platform, MongoDB distributes zip archive. Go to following downloads page from browser http://www.mongodb.org/downloads Depends on system architecture, it comes in two distribution as 32-bit 64-bit Downloading the 64-bit is recommended After you download, you will get zip archive in follwing format- mongodb—.zip Extract MongoDB archive (D:\MongoDB) Now extract archive using any zip extract program. After extracting, you will get the directories inside archive as follows here , bin directory contains the binaries in form of executable , such as mongod.exe, mongo.exe, monogexport.exe etc. Setup up configuration parameters and start/stop MongoDB For starting and stopping the MongoDB server, we need only the bin/mongod.exe , which is the daemon process executable for MongoDB. In short, it is the executable which starts up the MongoDB Server. For starting up, we need to provide the parameter