Thursday, April 18, 2013

MongoDB installation on Windows

1. Download MongoDB .

2. Extract the downloaded zip to a directory say, 

 C:\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.4.2
3. set path  ( C:\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.4.2\bin ) in environment variable ( Optional )
4. Mongo requires a data directory to store its files . Default location is  C:\data\db.  Create these  folders.
5. Start MongoDB in command prompt. mongod.exe is present in the bin directory of the distribution.



6.Connect to MongoDb using  Mongo shell in a new command prompt.


Now you can insert data in mongo db . Below is an example .



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