As documentation says, I have to write Mongo in my shell to run the Mongo shell. However, It won't work!
On the other hand, If I go to its directory (program-files/mongoDB/Server/4.4/Bin) and I type .\mongo , it opens and works!
Is there a way I can just use it from any directory? I am constantly moving across files to use it and it gets very annoying. I already tried to run npm i -g mongo and did nothing.
Thanks!!
translated from Spanish:mongo: The term 'mongo' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check if you entered the name correctly or, if you included a path, check that the path is correct
and try again.
You need to add path for mongoDB in Environment variable. Visit below link to know more:
https://dangphongvanthanh.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/add-mongos-bin-folder-to-the-path-environment-variable/
I recently installed the version 4.4 of MongoDB,I followed all the instructions as in the documentation of mongodb.
As instructed by my tutor I created another folder named 'mongodb'in my pc,inside which I created another folder named 'data' as well.Now i went to the command prompt and entered into the same mongodb folder i created earlier and typed the following command.
C:\Users\Dell\mongodb>mongod --dbpath=data --bind_ip 127.0.0.1
When I press Enter I see an error :
'mongod' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.
I am totally stuck in this.I even reinstalled mongodb again,but it is not working.
You might have a problem with path in Mongodb. After the installation process ends open a
Command Interpreter with Administrative privileges and run:
"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.4\bin\mongo.exe"
Now afterward you can use the 'mongod' Command. If still you are unable go to the pre insatlled Mongodb folder copy the path upto bin .
Now go to :
controlpanel>system and security>system>Advanced system settings.
A dialogue box appears and then at the bottom there is the option for Environment Variables.Click on that.
If Mongodb variable already exit delete that and click on the path option. You might see a new option somewhere around click on that and input box appears.Now paste the copied path in that box and click save/Ok or sth to end the options.
Now you can use the 'mongod' command .
I am using mac.And to execute mongodb I am going to downloads/mongodb/bin folder and then execute mongodb file, Can I directly execute with out going to downloads/mongodb/bin ?
The whole process is actually pretty well covered in the MongoDB documentation:
What they suggest is to export the installation directory into your path environment variable like so:
export PATH=<mongodb-install-directory>/bin:$PATH
I've installed mongoDB on my windows 10 OS. Then I tried setting its database path to some directory by moving to it and typing mongod --datapath=data in cmd, where data is the folder which is to contain the db(I've used the relative path because I'm in that directory). But message comes that mongod is unrecognized command. After some searching I found that by specifying mongod path, i.e. "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin\mongod.exe" --datapath=data works. Similar thing happens for mongo.
I want to directly run mongod and mongo commands, I have seen people directly using it(without going to the directory or specifying the path).
For a Windows installation, by default you have to use the full path to the exe unless you add it to the PATH.
To add it to the PATH:
01) Get path to bin, something like: C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin
02) Press the Windows key, type env, select Edit the system environment variables
03) On the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables
04) In the User variables for xxxx section, select path and then click the Edit... button
05) Click New and paste your path with a trailing slash, eg:
C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin\
06) Click OK, OK, OK and restart your command window.
Source
The examples you have seen are probably based on UNIX installations which I think by default install mongo as a service (which Windows doesn't) and that is what is called in those examples.
To simplify startup and configuration on Windows, you can also install it as a service. See the Mongo documentation here and the
"Configure Windows Service for MongoDB' section".
This will then allow you to start and stop Mongo by simply calling
net start MongoDB
Or
net stop MongoDB
If installed MongoDB version is 6.0 or above, mongo command will not work on Powershell/cmd. If you run the command you will get the following error:
'mongo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
To run mongo commands, you have to install MongoDB Shell from
After installing the shell, extract the zip file, you can rename the extracted folder (mongosh-1.6.0-win32-x64) as "MongoDB Shell" and move that folder to Windows(:C) > Program Files
Now open the folder, go to bin and copy the path:
C:\Program Files\MongoDB Shell\mongosh-1.6.0-win32-x64\bin (or
C:\Program Files\mongosh-1.6.0-win32-x64\mongosh-1.6.0-win32-x64\bin)
Go to
Settings > System > About > Advanced system settings > Environment
Variables > Under System Variables, click on 'Path' then 'Edit' >
Click 'New' and paste the above copied path > Click 'Ok' 'Ok' 'Ok'
Now open Powershell/cmd, run the command 'mongosh'
You're all set to work with MongoDB
To add it to the PATH:
Add Mongo’s bin folder to the Path Environment Variable
Kindly check the link:
here
After adding bin folder to the path Environment Variable
then simply type mongo in terminal it will start working
reference : Microsoft document
set your path like this
;C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin
this is worked for me.
Based on welshGaz answer above, I edited the User Path variable but it did not work for me yet. I wasn't able to access the System Path variables.
What I noticed from the errors on the command prompt is that it what missing the "C:\data\db" directory to store its files (I don't know what those files are for just yet). So I created that directory myself and it worked.
Same problem here. I installed through the .msi file provided for windows X64bit. In the installer instructions from MongoDB (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/), I read that you can add C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin to the System Path. Then it asks to omit the full path to the the MongoDB binaries. That is where I think some information is missing. How are we supposed to omit the full path to the MongoDB binaries?
Currently I can get MongoDB to run mongod using:
"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongod.exe" --dbpath="c:\data\db"
For --dbpath="c:\data\db" you can replace "c:\data\db" with the path to your database.
I can also run mongo using:
"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.2\bin\mongo.exe"
Another reason to it if you enabled any property in YAML file and it is not formatted properly. YAML looks for specific syntax like colon":"+space" ".
E.g.-
security:
authorization: enabled
use mongosh command from your terminal. mongo command no longer works for 6.0 and above.
if you are trying to connect from connection url eg mongodb://localhost:27017/yourdb try changing it to something like mongodb://127.0.0.1/yourdb
I created a bin folder in user account and paste mongo inside this folder. I successfully created conf and log file also and my server also running.
I checked that by using grep command.
But if i try to use mongo shell it says"Command not found"
If this is Linux or another Unix-like OS and you are in the directory where you put the mongo executable, you need to type "./mongo" to run the shell. This is not MongoDB specific, it's just the way Unix-like systems work. If you are in a different directory, specify the path to the mongo executable (e.g. "~/bin/mongo") or add "~/bin" to your PATH environment variable.