Single node installation of MongoDB with options from the config file
As we can see, providing options from the command line does the work, but it starts getting awkward as soon as the number of options that we provide increase. We have a nice and clean alternative to provide the start up options from a configuration file rather than as command-line arguments.
Getting ready
If you have already executed the Installing single node MongoDB recipe, you need not do anything different as all the prerequisites of this recipe are the same.
How to do it…
The /data/mongo/db directory for the database and /logs/ for the logs should be created and present on your filesystem with the appropriate permissions to write to it and perform the following steps:
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