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

As now is 2021 year, so start mongodb on Mac:

Use brew

• brew services start mongodb-community
  • for installed by: brew install mongodb-community

similarly:

for specify version

• brew services start mongodb-community@4.2
  • for installed by: brew services install mongodb-community@4.2

only running not want bootable

the start means start and enable start at launch/boot

for only run currently, use run:

• brew services run mongodb-community

check status

after start, check status use:

• brew services

Manually

for old version mongodb, the command is mongod:

• Directly run: mongodb
• Run with config: mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
  • the default config file path is: /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
• Run with only pass some parameter:
  • with database path: mongod --dbpath /data
    • /data is common mongodb database path

Answer 2

Install and Run MongoDB with Homebrew

Open the Terminal app and type

brew update

After updating Homebrew

brew install mongodb-community@4.0

After downloading Mongo, create the “db” directory. This is where the Mongo data files will live. You can create the directory in the default location by running

sudo mkdir -p /data/db

Make sure that the /data/db directory has the right permissions by running

sudo chown -R id -un /data/db

Run the Mongo daemon, in one of your terminal windows run

brew services start mongodb-community

This should start the Mongo server. Run the Mongo shell, with the Mongo daemon running in one terminal, type mongo in another terminal window. This will run the Mongo shell which is an application to access data in MongoDB. To exit the Mongo shell run quit() To stop the Mongo daemon hit ctrl-c

start service:

brew services start mongo

https://treehouse.github.io/installation-guides/mac/mongo-mac.html

Answer 3

Use this line it will fix the issue.

Execute this line in your terminal at the mongo bin path:

export PATH=<mongodb-install-directory>/bin:$PATH

<mongodb-install-directory> replace this with your path, for example:

export PATH=/Application/Mongo/bin:$PATH

Answer 4

If you used homebrew to install MongoDB on macOS you type the following in terminal. Should do the trick in most cases.

$ brew services start mongodb