New to MongoDB Can not run command mongo

Question

With the help of the following code, I was trying to run MongoDB

   E:\mongo\bin>mongod

    mongod --help for help and startup options

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 warning: 32-bit servers don't have journaling enabled by default. Please use --journal if you want durability.

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=7108 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 32-bit host=pykhmer-PC

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten]

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] ** NOTE: when using MongoDB 32 bit, you are limited to about 2 gigabytes of data

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] **       see http://blog.mongodb.org/post/137788967/32-bit-limitations

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] **       with --journal, the limit is lower

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten]

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] db version v2.0.1, pdfile version 4.5

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] git version: 3a5cf0e2134a830d38d2d1aae7e88cac31bdd684

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] build info: windows (5, 1, 2600, 2, 'Service Pack 3') BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_42

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] options: {}

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 10296 dbpath (/data/db) does not exist, terminating

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 dbexit:

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets...

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush diaglog...

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close sockets...

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] shutdown: waiting for fs preallocator...

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] shutdown: closing all files...

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] closeAllFiles() finished

    Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 dbexit: really exiting now

E:\mongo\bin>mongo

MongoDB shell version: 2.0.1

connecting to: test

Sun Nov 06 18:48:42 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1 shell/mongo.js:84

exception: connect failed

E:\mongo>ls

GNU-AGPL-3.0  README THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES  bin data

I was looking at the official document of MongoDB and followed the instructions. Why the error is coming while running MongoDB btw I am using Windows 7?

Answer 1

You are getting the following error:

Sun Nov 06 18:48:37 [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 10296 dbpath (/data/db) does not exist, terminating

Which means that you have to create the directory, you are missing the directory in your data folder. Inside the data folder, create a folder named db. Inside this db folder, all your databases will get stored. 

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