how to set mongod --dbpath

Question

very new to mongodb and databases in general. whenever i run mongo i receive this error message: ​​​

MongoDB shell version: 2.         


        

Answer 1

Windows environment, local machine. I had an error

[js] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed: SocketException: 
Error connecting to 127.0.0.1:27017 :: caused by :: 
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. :

After some back and forth attempts I decided

• to check Windows "Task Manager". I noticed that MongoDB process is stopped.
• I made it run. Everything starts working as expected.

Answer 2

Have only tried this on Mac:

• Create a data directory in the root folder of your app
• cd into your wherever you placed your mongo directory when you installed it

• run this command:

  mongod --dbpath ~/path/to/your/app/data

You should be good to go!

Answer 3

You can use --dbpath flag in order to provide it with the parameters i.e, the directory address. I found it useful for Windows 10 OS.

With the default settings it is usually not required.

Answer 4

Create a directory db in home, inside db another directory data

cd 
mkdir db
cd db
mkdir data

then type this command--

mongod --dbpath ~/db/data

Answer 5

For me it must have:

mongod --dbpath=/whatever/data/path

Answer 6

sudo mongod --dbpath ~/data

This made it work for me.