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 started following a tutorial on a blog that required MongoDB. It had instructions on downloading and configuring the service. But for some reason the command for starting the Windows service in that tutorial wasn’t working. So I went to the MongoDB docs and tried running this command as listed in the mongodb.org-

The command for strting mongodb service- sc.exe create MongoDB binPath= "\"C:\MongoDB\bin\mongod.exe\" --service --config=\"C:\MongoDB\bin\mongodb\mongod.cfg\"" DisplayName= "MongoDB" start= "auto"

I got this message: [SC] CreateService SUCCESS

Then I ran this one: 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.

I create a file named 'mongod.cfg' in the 'C:\MongoDB\bin\mongodb\' As soon as I added that file and re-ran the command- 'net start MongoDB', the service started running fine.

Hope this helps.