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 got the same error

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

as I was specifying log path folder in mongo.config but I have to specify a log file

  dbpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\data\db
  logpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\log
  diaglog=3

i changed my log file to

 dbpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\data\db
 logpath=C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\log\mongo.log
 diaglog=3

and after that this command solved my problem. hope this workfor you as well.

 mongod.exe --config "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\mongo.config" --install

then finally

net start MongoDB