Failed Global Initialization: BadValue logpath requires an absolute file path with windows services

Question

I am getting this error constantly while i am trying to install mongod using a configuration file. So, I am looking at this tutorial on Pluralsight on mongodb. The person\'s pro

Answer 1

I was having the same problem with MongoDB's instructions because I was using relative path in the CLI for my mongo.cfg once I had navigated to the MongoDB bin:

mongod.exe --config mongod.cfg --install.

Instead I needed to specify the config file's absolute path:

mongod.exe --config "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin\mongod.cfg" --install