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.

Answer 2

For mongoDB 3.0, You will have to set the following in the config file.

logpath=E:\mongoDBdata\log\mongoDB.log
dbpath=E:\mongoDBdata\db

the logpath should end with a file and not a folder.

Answer 3

These are the steps I followed to install mongoDB on windows 7

1. download the .msi file from the mongodb site--> https://www.mongodb.com/download-center?jmp=nav#community and run it

2. Wherever your mondoDb is downloaded (generally in the c drive Program Files folder), go to that folder and wherever is the bin folder in that same folder create your data folder and your log folder

3.Inside your data folder create your db folder

The structure would look something like this

4. Now open command prompt as administrator.

5. change your file path and enter the bin folder.( in this case it would be c>program files>MongoDB>bin> )

6. Type in the following command : mongod --directoryperdb --dbpath "C:/Program Files\MongoDB\data" --logpath "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\log\mongo.log" --logappend --rest --install

7. This would set the logpath and database path. Lastly run net start MongoDB . Hope this helps.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Just try to run mongod.exe locally in command line, you can get here exception, that mongod calls and try to solve it. In my case it was small free space on local disc, so I just change location of directories and change Mongocofig file and now it run ok.

Answer 6

make sure to open the command line with "run as administrator" rights in the right click before typing the entire mongod things