Categories: MongoDB

How to install MongoDB on Windows

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on Windows. There are following steps to Install MongoDB on windows OS.

Step: 1. Download MongoDB-

Download the MongoDB from the official MongoDB website. Pre built binary packages of MongoDb are available for both 32 bit and 64 bit. You can download it, and install.

Step: 2. Unzip MongoDB folder and creating directory

Unzip it to your prefer location, for example : C:mongodb

Step: 3. Review MongoDB folder-

In MongoDB v2.2.2, it contains only 13 executable files (exe) in the bin folder.

Step: 4. Set Up The Environment

MongoDB requires a data folder to store its files. The default location for the MongoDB data directory is C:datadb. Create this folder using the Command Prompt. Issue the following command sequence:

md data
md datadb
Note

You may specify an alternate path for datadb with the dbpath setting for mongod.exe, as in the following example:

C:mongodbbinmongod.exe --dbpath d:testmongodbdata

If your path includes spaces, enclose the entire path in double quotations, for example:

C:mongodbbinmongod.exe --dbpath "d:testmongo db data"

Step: 5. Run the MongoDb server from command prompt

To run MongoDb server from command prompt, you have to execute mongod.exe file from bin folder of mongodb folder.

Step: 6. In additional, MongoDB come with a web admin interface listening on port 28017.

Step: 7. Connect to MongoDB

 

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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