How to check if Mongodb is properly installed

Question

I installed MongoDb yesterday on a Mac Snow Leopard and got the following error message

Mongo::ConnectionFailure: Failed to connect to a master node at localhost         


        

Answer 1

The easiest way to run mongodb on Mac OS is:

Download binary package from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads, for me, I am using lastest 64 bit version (http://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz)

1. mkdir -p $HOME/opt
2. cd $HOME/opt
3. wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz to download the latest (2.0.2 for now) 64 bit binary package for Mac OS
4. tar xf mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz -C $HOME/opt to unpack the package, and it will be unpacked to $HOME/opt/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2
5. mkdir -p $HOME/opt/mongodata to create the data directory for mongodb
6. $HOME/opt/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2/bin/mongod --dbpath=$HOME/opt/mongodata --logpath=$HOME/opt/mongod.log to start the mongodb daemon
7. Then you can run $HOME/opt/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2/bin/mongo to connect to your local mongodb service

You can also have http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+OS+X as additional reference