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

The error message spells out the problem. Your MongoDB confguration file has a relative path, not an absolute path.

Try setting the logpath as follows

logpath=c:/Pluralsight/mongod.log