MongoDB not using /etc/mongodb.conf after I changed dbpath

Question

Ever since I changed the dbpath in /etc/mongodb.conf, MongoDB has not been starting automatically, nor using the new dbpath. Prior to

Answer 1

It turns out that I needed to set the owner and group to mongodb. When I transferred the files to the new directory, I had set the owner and group to my user account nick and also tried root, neither of which worked.

To do so, here are the following commands:

sudo chown mongodb /home/nick/appdev/mongodb -R
sudo chgrp mongodb /home/nick/appdev/mongodb -R

To confirm that it worked, you can check the file permissions with:

ls -l /home/nick/appdev/mongodb