How to install MongoDB 2.0.6 on on RHEL/CentOS 5-6 & Fedora 12-17

This howto tutorial guide you on how to install MongoDB 2.0.6 on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 12,13,14,15,16,17 servers using Mongodb 10gen repositories with YUM command.

What is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open source no-schema and high-performance document-oriented NoSQL database (NoSQL means it doesn’t provide any tables, rows, etc.) system much like Apache CouchDB. It stores data in JSON-like documents with dynamic schema’s for better performance. for more information about features visit THIS PAGE.

MongoDB Tools

Following are the MongoDB tools that included in the mongo-10gen packages.

• mongo
• mongodump
• mongorestore
• mongoexport
• mongoimport
• mongostat
• mongotop
• bsondump

Install MongoDB 2.0.6 on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 12,13,14,15,16,17

Step 1: Adding MongoDB 10gen Repository

1. First, we need to add MongoDB 10gen Repository to install MongoDB 2.0.6 on RHEL 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.2/6.1/6/5.8, Fedora 17-12 for x86 and x86_64 platforms.
2. Create a file under /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo and add the following lines based on your OS version and Bit.

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo

## For RHEL/CentOS 5-6 32-bit OS ##
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/i686
gpgcheck=0

## For RHEL/CentOS 5-6 64-bit OS ##
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64
gpgcheck=0

## For Fedora 17-12 32-bit OS ##
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/i686
gpgcheck=0

## For Fedora 17-12 64-bit OS ##
[10gen]
name=10gen Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64
gpgcheck=0

Step 2: Installing MongoDB 2.0.6

Once the repo installed, run the following command to install MongoDB 2.0.6.

# yum install mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server

Step 3: Configure MongoDB Database

Open file /etc/mongod.conf and verify below basic settings. If commented any settings, please un-comment it.

# vi /etc/mongod.conf

logpath=/var/log/mongo/mongod.log
port=27017
dbpath=/var/lib/mongo

Step 4: Starting MongoDB Database

## Enable MongoDB on Boot ##
# chkconfig --add mongod

## Enable MongoDB on Run Level's ##
# chkconfig --levels 235 mongod

## Starting MongoDB Server ##
# /etc/init.d/mongod start

## Re-Starting MongoDB Server ##
# /etc/init.d/mongod restart

## Stopping MongoDB Server ##
# /etc/init.d/mongod stop

Step 5: Verifying MongoDB Database

Connect to your MongoDB shell by using following command.

# mongo

Command Ouput :

[root@twiki ~]# mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.6
connecting to: test

This command will connect to your MongoDB database. Run the following basic commands.

> show dbs
> show collections
> show users
> use <db name>

For more information visit official page at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/contents/.