mongod and mongo commands not working on windows 10

Question

I\'ve installed mongoDB on my windows 10 OS. Then I tried setting its database path to some directory by moving to it and typing mongod --datapath=data in cmd, wher

Answer 1

Same problem here. I installed through the .msi file provided for windows X64bit. In the installer instructions from MongoDB (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/), I read that you can add C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin to the System Path. Then it asks to omit the full path to the the MongoDB binaries. That is where I think some information is missing. How are we supposed to omit the full path to the MongoDB binaries?

Currently I can get MongoDB to run mongod using:

"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongod.exe" --dbpath="c:\data\db"

For --dbpath="c:\data\db" you can replace "c:\data\db" with the path to your database.

I can also run mongo using:

"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongo.exe"