Installing MongoDB
Configure Package Management System (YUM)
Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file to hold informationabout your repository. If you are running a 64-bit system(recommended,) place the following configuration in/etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file:
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
If you are running a 32-bit system, which isn’t recommended forproduction deployments, place the following configuration in/etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo file:
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/i686
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
Installing Packages
Issue the following command (as root or with sudo) to install thelatest stable version of MongoDB and the associated tools:
yum install mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server
When this command completes, you have successfully installed MongoDB!Continue for configuration and start-up suggestions.
Configure MongoDB
These packages configure MongoDB using the /etc/mongod.conf filein conjunction with thecontrol script. You can find the initscript at/etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod.
This MongoDB instance will store its data files in the/var/lib/mongo and its log files in/var/log/mongo, andrun using themongod user account.
Note
If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you will needto modify the access control rights to the/var/lib/mongo and/var/log/mongo directories.
Control MongoDB
Start MongoDB
Start the mongod process by issuing the following command(as root, or withsudo):
service mongod start
You can verify that the mongod process has startedsuccessfully by checking the contents of the log file at/var/log/mongo/mongod.log.
You may optionally, ensure that MongoDB will start following a systemreboot, by issuing the following command (with root privileges:)
chkconfig mongod on