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

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

mongod --dbpath=.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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 5

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 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