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 parameters for executable, which i call it here as config parameters or params.

We can setup the config parameters using the two ways

• Using command line options or
• Using config file

Now create two folders one is data in D:\MongoDB and other is log in D:\MongoDB which looks like

Using command line options

Run command line as administrator.

Use the following commands to start the server process

Change to bin directory

cd D:\MongoDB\bin

now type following command to start the mongod process

mongod --dbpath D:\MongoDB\data --port 27017

As we specify the logpath option, then logging will direct to that log file instead of showing up on standard console

$> mongod --dbpath D:\MongoDB\data --port 27017 --logpath D:\MongoDB\log\mongod.log

Using the config file

Create a folder config in D:\MongoDB\config

Instead of specifying command line option, we can specify same with use of file, which i call it here as config file Config file is just text file, containing the parameters in the key=value form and each one is specified on the every line of file In this, we basically provide path to file (which contains the configurations) as command line option as “-f” or “–config” Following is the snippet for the config file

dbpath = D:\MongoDB\data  port = 27017  logpath = D:\MongoDB\log\mongo.log

You can save this file with any extension, but specify full path with extension, while stating process as shown in following commands. From command prompt, you will use either of following

mongod -f  D:\MongoDB\config\mongodb.sharjeel

or

mongod --config  D:\MongoDB\config\mongodb.conf

Start/Stop MongoDB using the Windows services

mongod -f "D:\MongoDB\config\mongodb.conf"   --install --serviceName bilali2018  --serviceDisplayName "MongoDB Server Instance 27017"  --serviceDescription "MongoDB Server Instance running on 27017"