Setup MongoDB Database - charleshross/soarin GitHub Wiki

This guides assumes you have already installed a fresh copy of Debian Linux Wheezy 64bit (https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst) on your server or virtual machine.

• Words like this are commands to run on your server or virtual machine.
• The 'pico' text editor used in this documentation comes with Debian and is super simple to use. To open a file just type pico [location of your file]. Use arrow keys to navigate, and in order press "[CTRL]+[X], [Y], [ENTER]" to save file changes.

To begin installing, SSH into your Linux Debian server as root.

Install MongoDB

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Instructions adapted from http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/getting-started/

Import the public key for MongoDB packages

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10

Create a sources list for mongodb

echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list

Update aptitude for new packages

apt-get update

Install the MongoDB packages

apt-get install mongodb-org=2.6.0 mongodb-org-server=2.6.0 mongodb-org-shell=2.6.0 mongodb-org-mongos=2.6.0 mongodb-org-tools=2.6.0

Start MongoDB

/etc/init.d/mongod start

Verify MongoDB started by checking log file

pico /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log

Stop MongoDB

/etc/init.d/mongod stop

Restart MongoDB

/etc/init.d/mongod restart

Finished!