Mongo is unable to start

Question

I\'m trying to start mongo uin windows10 by type: mongo in cmd.

I am getting this error:

C:\\Users\\Itzik>mongo
MongoDB shell versio         


        

Answer 1

In C:\Program Files\MongoDB\ you might not have permission to create file/folder for your user. And mongo installer cannot create it because of lack of Administrative permission for your user.

So in C:\Program Files\MongoDB:

1. Create a folder named data
2. Create a folder named db inside the folder data
3. Now right click on the data folder and choose properties
4. Click security tab and select your user there
5. Click the Full control select box
6. Click ok, ok, ok ...
7. important! if you don't have the path "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin" set in environment variable, please set it.
8. Now go to shell and type : mongod --dbpath "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\data\db"

That's it :)