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 ran into the same problem. But I could resolve it by updating the paths as follows. I could see the problem is with Forward and backward slashes in file paths.

mongod.conf (instead of giving the relative path provide absolute path and also make sure you have "/" instead of "\")

dbpath= C:/mongolearning/db
logpath= C:/mongolearning/mongo-server.log
verbose=vvvvv

and then go to Command prompt:

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin>mongod -f "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin\mogod.conf" --install

and then

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin>net start mongodb

Boom it started.

The MongoDB service is starting. The MongoDB service was started successfully.