Cannot start MongoDB as a service

Question

I have been developing for MongoDB for some months now and would like to install it as a service on my Windows 7 Enterprise machine. The following is the command that I hav

Answer 1

I ran this command:

C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin>net start MongoDB

And got this message:

The service is not responding to the control function. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.

After some trials and errors, I noticed when following the tutorial it asked me to name my file mongod.conf but the command was trying to refer to mongod.cfg.

As soon as I corrected that name and re-run the commands,

C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin>sc.exe delete MongoDB
[SC] DeleteService SUCCESS

C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin>sc.exe create MongoDB binPath= "\"C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin\mongod.exe\" --service --config=\"C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\mongod.cfg\"" DisplayName= "MongoDB" start= "auto"
[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

C:\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin>net start MongoDB
The MongoDB service is starting....
The MongoDB service was started successfully.

The service started running fine.