React Cookbook

Running MongoDB

Before we start MongoDB for the first time, we need to create a directory in which the mongod process will write the data:

1. By default, the mongod process uses the /data/db directory. To create this folder, you can use the following command:

    mkdir -p /data/db

2. Now we need to set permissions for the data directory:

    chmod -R 777 /data

3. In a new terminal (or tab) you need to run the following:

    mongod

4. If you didn't get an error, you could start the Mongo shell on the same host machine as mongod (in a new terminal or tab):

    mongo --host 127.0.0.1:127017

If you get an error like this: Error: Port number 127017 out of range parsing HostAndPort from "127.0.0.1:127017", then just run mongo without --host flag.

5. Finally, if ...