MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: Setting up your computer to follow along
Lecture: Concept: MongoDB as a Windows service
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Let's review installing MongoDB on Windows.
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It just took a couple of steps, we started out
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by downloading and running the msi installer,
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and then, we realized well, we don't actually have access to Mongo or Mongod
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or any of the other tools from our command line, so what are we going to do—
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well it turns out that it got installed into this location
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and notice that the number may vary based on the released version of MongoDB,
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so we went in there and we actually added that to our path;
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and then we could type mongo, mongod, mongo restore
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and all the various tools are going to have to use throughout the course.
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And then we said all right, well this is not going to run on its own,
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the way it gets installed on windows is it assumes
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that there is a c data mongo or data-db,
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something like that, it'll tell you on the error,
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but I don't like to put stuff and just see data,
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I kind of want to group stuff a little bit more
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so we made some mongodb folders,
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we made the c:\mongodb\data, \logs and \configs;
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so those three obviously longs go in logs, data goes in data,
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and then we have those two config files that we can use to run mongodb
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with all the various settings set for us.
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We copied the configs over, and I'll include those in the source controle
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so you guys can grab the windows setup configs
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and you know, just change the path to wherever you put things;
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and then you want to test those configs, so we're going to test them
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by saying mongod--config and the full path to the config,
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this command one is meant to have no log in, so basically it spits out
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the log information to the command line to the command shell,
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that way you can see what's happening.
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Of course, in the service version, the service actually won't install
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if there's not somewhere for the logs to go to
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because it knows you're not going to see anything so it has to log it for it to work.
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All right, so this is just if you want to run it on the command line,
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then we're going to install it as a windows service,
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so this time we use the mongo-service config,
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which is basically the same, other than having a log in
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and we added the --install, okay.
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And it was really important that we run that command prompt
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as an administrator not as a regular user
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otherwise it doesn't have access to alter the service configuration in windows.
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All right, once this was all done, we went to the service config,
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we pressed start and then we're good to go.
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Final thing you might want to do, adjust the startup mode to manual,
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depending on whether you want mongodb to start every time you turn on windows
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or only when you click the button in the service panel.
