Troubleshooting “mongo not found” and “php_mongo.dll is not a win32 application” errors

Question

I have been trying to install mongo for over 6 hours now and still have not gotten it to work. I am going to make this very detailed so that hopefully someone will help me get

Answer 1

Ok so after hours and hours of searching for an answer to my original question which was:

I am running a 64 bit machine with a 64 bit wamp stack but mongodb will not work in wamp 64 bit, how do i get all this working?

I finally just uninstalled wamp 64 bit and downloaded wamp 32 bit onto my windows 64 bit machine. I then downloaded the mongo 64 bit version and everything is working fine.