Install MongoDB 3.2 on Windows

MongoDB stores JSON documents in Binary format termed as BSON (Binary JSON). Some of the features of MongoDB are:

MongoDB is also very popular NoSQL database because we have drivers for all the major programming languages such as Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, C, C++ etc.

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

Step #1 Download MongoDB

Download MongoDB from official MongoDB website. You can also use following command to download MongoDB according to your system.

For Windows 64 bit
# wget https://fastdl.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-3.0.10-signed.msi
For Windows 32 bit
# wget https://fastdl.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-i386-3.0.10-signed.msi

Note: 32-bit builds are limited to around 2GB of data. In general you should use the 64 bit builds. See here for more information.

Step #2 Install MongoDB

After download Mongodb run the msi executable file. By default Mongodb install in C:\Program FilesD:\mongodb

In MongoDB, it contains only 10+ executable files (exe) in the bin folder.

Step #3 Create Configuration File

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

##store data here
dbpath=D:\mongodb\data

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

##log read and write operations
diaglog=3

Note: MongoDB need a data folder to store its data and log folder to create log files. So create this folder manually. MongoDB won’t create it for you

Step #4 Run MongoDB server

Use below command in windows command prompt to start MongoDB server.

d:\mongodb\bin>mongod --config D:\mongodb\mongo.config

all output going to: D:\mongodb\log\mongo.log

Step #5 Connect to MongoDB

Uses mongo.exe to connect to the started MongoDB server.

d:\mongodb\bin>mongo

MongoDB shell version: 3.2.4
connecting to: test
> //mongodb shell

Step #6 MongoDB as Windows Service

Add MongoDB as Windows Service, so that MongoDB will start automatically following each system restart.

d:\mongodb\bin> mongod --config D:\mongodb\mongo.config --install

A Windows service named “MongoDB” is created.

To start MongoDB Service

# net start MongoDB

To stop MongoDB Service

net stop MongoDB

To remove MongoDB Service

d:\mongodb\bin>mongod --remove

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Enjoy it!