Installing MongoDB
- Course recommends installing the Download from MongoDB Download Center
- Current Stable Release (3.2.10)
- I installed using Homebrew which is already setup on my MAC
- brew install mongodb
- mongo –version
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.10 - mongod –version
db version v3.2.10
git version: 79d9b3ab5ce20f51c272b4411202710a082d0317
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2j 26 Sep 2016
allocator: system
modules: none
build environment:
distarch: x86_64
target_arch: x86_64 - which mongo
/usr/local/bin/mongo - which mongod
/usr/local/bin/mongod
- Make default data directory for MongoDB databases
- sudo mkdir -p /data/db
- sudo chmod 777 /data/db
- Test setup
- Start the server with mongod
- Start the command line
mongo
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.10
connecting to: test - > db.names.insert({‘name’:”Bill Moore”});
WriteResult({ “nInserted” : 1 })
> db.names.find()
{ “_id” : ObjectId(“57fd68463b07d5d5b5344d7b”), “name” : “Bill Moore” }
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