Jul 10, 2014

Installing and running MondoDB on Ubuntu / Linux

Installation:-

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10

echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen

Change configurations:-

vi /etc/mongodb.conf

Check for error/logs:-

tail -f /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log

Create the dbpath dir if not exists, and give permissions:-

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /root/data/db

Start mongod as a Daemon:-

mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log

Ref - http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/

Labels: linux, mongodb, ubuntu

By : Motyar+ @motyar