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Installing and setting up MongoDB on Windows

The procedure to to install and set up MongoDB on Windows is as follows.

Note

 This procedure applies to both standalone and high-availability setup. For high-availability, you have to perform an additional step of configuring MongoDB for replica set.

Related topics

 Installing-and-setting-up-MongoDB-on-Linux

Deploying-MongoDB-as-a-replica-set

 

  1. Run with root access:
    Run as the system administrator.
  2. Download MongoDB: 
    https://fastdl.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-3.2.1.zip http://downloads.mongodb.org/win32/mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-2.6.8.zip(Or, to get specific versions:  http://www.mongodb.org/downloads#previous )
  3. Extract (unzip) the MongoDB archive: 
  4. Copy MongoDB to the target directory:
    1. Create c:\dbdata\mongodb
    2. Move the extracted folder to c:\dbdata\mongodb
  5. Create the database data directory:
    Create c:\dbdata\mongodatawt

  6. Create a key file that your deployment will use to authenticate servers to each other.
    Ensure that your key file meets the following requirements:

    • Contains 6 to 1024 characters and contains only characters in the base64 set.
    • Setting keyFile enables authentication and specifies a key file for the replica set members to use when authenticating to each other.
    • Key file content is arbitrary but is the same on all members of the replica set instances that connect to the set.

    Create the mongo.key file in c:\dbdata\mongodb with the following content: mysecretkey007

  7. Set the storage engine to wiredTiger for better performance and reduced storage.
     Run the following command:

    c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-3.2.1\bin\mongod.exe --dbpath c:\dbdata\mongodatawt --port 27017 --storageEngine wiredTiger

    Note

    To ensure that Mongod is running, keep the command window open.  

  8. Connect to the mongo shell and create the administrator user and the social database administrator:

    Note

    Open a new command window to execute mongo.exe shell to create administrator users.

    use admin
    db.createUser( {
    user: "siteUserAdmin",
    pwd: "password",
    roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
    });
    db.createUser( {
    user: "siteRootAdmin",
    pwd: "<siteRootAdminPassword>",
    roles: [ { role: "root", db: "admin" } ]
    });
    use social
    db.createUser( {
    user: "social_admin",
    pwd: "<social_adminPassword>",
    roles:
    [ { role: "dbOwner", db: "social" } ]
    });
  9. Stop the mongo process that was started.
  10. Start the MongoDB service with the key file:

    1. Create the file c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-3.0.8\mongod.cfg and add following settings:

      dbpath=c:\dbdata\mongodatawt
      port=27017
      logpath=c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongo_social.log
      logappend=true
      quiet=true
      journal=true
      replSet=myitsocial
      keyFile = c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongo.key
      nohttpinterface = true
      storageEngine = wiredTiger

      Note

      For standalone setup, remove replSet parameter form the mongod.cfg file.

    2. As administrator, open the command prompt window and run the following command:

      c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-3.2.1\bin\mongod.exe --config c:\dbdata\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-3.2.1\mongod.cfg --install
    3. To start the service, run the net start MongoDB command.
  11. (For high-availability) After installing and setting up MongoDB on WIndows, go to Configuring-MongoDB-for-replica-set.

 

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