Trying to get started with mongodb and I have it installed manually, but cant seem to go forward past this point
mongod --dbpath path_to_my_app\data
I am a bit unclear on how to set the PATH, pretty sure the location of the binaries is not being set right. How would I go about this part of the problem?
MongoDb version = 3.0.2, OS X 10.9.5
Edit: Okay i figured where the issue was, it was the way i was declaring the path i was missing a directory ~/missing/path_to_app.
Try these steps:
- Install MongoDB
1.1 Configure the package management system (APT)
sudo apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv 7F0CEB10
1.2 Create a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list file using the following command.
echo ‘deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
1.3 reload repository
sudo apt-get update
1.4 install the package
sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen
or
sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen=2.4.10
for a specific version
1.5 (optional) To pin a package to avoid unintended auto-upgrade
echo “mongodb-10gen hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections
- Run MongoDB
2.1 Start
sudo service mongodb start (or sudo service mongod start)
2.2 Stop
sudo service mongodb stop (or sudo service mongod stop)
2.3 Restart
sudo service mongodb restart (or sudo service mongod restart)
2.4 check status
sudo service mongodb status (or sudo service mongod status)
- Use MongoDB (Manual from console)
3.1 Connect to a Database
mongo –port port-number –host host-name
e.g. mongo –port 27017 –host localhost
3.2 Select a DB
use db-name
3.3 all commands are very easy-to-understand and straightforward, “help” will show all of them.
3.4. Add users and passwords
Mongo DB allows localhost exception after initial installation before creating any users/passwords, meaning that it allows access to any connection requests (client or console) without username and password. You can create user and password as follows:
3.4.1 connect via “mongo” console command in terminal (sudo may be required)
shell: mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.0 connecting to: test
3.4.2 switch to admin table
use admin
switched to db admin
3.4.3 create/dorp/show the user
db.createUser({user: “user”,pwd: “password”,roles:[{role: “userAdminAnyDatabase”,”db” : “admin”}, {“role” : “readWrite”,”db” : “admin”}]})
Successfully added user: { “user” : “federatedwireless”, “roles” : [ { “role” : “userAdminAnyDatabase”, “db” : “admin” }, { “role” : “readWrite”, “db” : “admin” } ] }
db.dropUser(“user”)
show users
3.4.4 restart mongo
sudo service mongodb restart (or sudo service mongod status)
note: the defaulted installed mongo start command did not enable the authentication, it runs like below:
After adding user as above, clients are only asked for credential when try to use database but not on connecting to the database server/cluster. Also local exception is still available. You will need to enable the authentication by changing the start command to
- Use MongoDB in applications (via MongoDB Drivers and Client Librapgadmin3ries)
4.1 Available MongoDB Drivers and Client Libraries
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHP
Perl
Java
Scala
C#
C
C++
Haskell
Erlang
- Mongo Admin/Management GUIs
There are a lot of 3rd party GUI apps available for administrating and managing MongoDB. I installed a web based mViewer. Installation is simply download and extract that package to you desired directory (e.g. ~/workplace/db-admin/mongo) and start it in that directory via
/start_mViewer.sh
Where port is optional and default is 8080.
you can then access the GUI web page via http://server-URI:8080/index.html
- Allow remote client to connect to MongoDB
The default configuration comes with Mongo package only allows local connections. To allows remote clients, need to modify the Mongo config file “/etc/mongodb.conf” as instructed in the config file:
bind_ip = 127.0.0.1
comment out “bind_ip = 127.0.0.1″ as
will allow remote clients.
(Reference: Tuts)
