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

For version 2.6 at least, you must create the /data/db/ and /log/ folders that the mongo.cfg points to. MongoDB won't do so itself, and will throw that error in response when ran as a service.