node.js - Installing and Running MongoDB on OSX

Question

If someone can provide some insights here I would GREATLY appreciate it.

I am new to MongoDB, and (relatively) new to the command line.

I had a express/node.js app running on MongoDB locally successfully, but upon restarting my computer, I attempted to restart the Mongo server and it began giving errors and wouldn't start. Since then, I have re-installed Mongo several times only to find the same error occurring. this is what I am receiving:

privee:mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.6 jonlinton$ ./bin/mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.6
connecting to: test
Mon Aug 26 14:48:47.168 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 at     src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:145
exception: connect failed

Am I missing a step? Should I be creating a config file? Some basic guidance would be really helpful. Thanks in advance for any insights.

Answer 1

If you have installed mongodb through homebrew then you can simply start mongodb through

brew services start mongodb

Then access the shell by

mongo

You can shut down your db by

brew services stop mongodb

You can restart your db by

brew services restart mongodb

For more options

brew info mongodb