How to start a mongodb service on mac OS X?

Question

I have already installed Mongodb on my mac but the process is currently not running. How do I start the Mongodb service so that I can start using the commands?

Answer 1

Try the following steps in Terminal:

which mongod

This will output the path to your mongod, but if it is not in your $PATH the command output will be empty. So you need to find your executable:

find / -name 'mongod'

In the output of this command, you will see many lines, one of which will be like bin/mongod, e.g. /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod. In that case take the whole absolute path and do the following:

echo "PATH=/usr/local/mongodb/bin/:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile

Then try again:

mongod --dbpath /your/path

Answer 2

To start the mongodb, you should only have to run the "mongod" command on the terminal.

Answer 3

Just do brew services start mongodb-community. Example:

$ brew services list
Name              Status  User Plist
mongodb-community stopped      
$ brew services start mongodb-community
==> Successfully started `mongodb-community` (label: homebrew.mxcl.mongodb-community)

Of course, depends on your installation. This is the typical brew install.

Answer 4

Try with this following steps:

find your MongoDB path and MongoDB database path and run the below command

/Users/username/mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath=/Users/username/mongodb-data/

Answer 5

Just go into a folder where you want mongodb to store all the database files and run the command

mongod --dbpath=.

Answer 6

For mongodb-community@4.2

To start run brew services start mongodb-community@4.2

To end run brew services stop mongodb-community@4.2

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