Installation in Windows

• Download: MongoDB Community edition & Install it
• Go to C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\{version}
• Create mongod.cfg in ‘bin’ folder (details: Configuration File Options)
• Create ‘myapp’ folder in C drive
• Create ‘log’ & ‘data’ folder in ‘myapp’ folder (c:\myapp\log & c:\myapp\data)
• Create ‘db’ folder in ‘data’ folder (c:\myapp\data\db)

Creating config file (C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\{version}\bin\mongod.cfg)

systemLog:
    destination: file
    path: c:\myapp\log\mongod.log
storage:
    dbPath: c:\myapp\data\db

Install mongod.exe as service

Open cmd as administrator & run command

"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.exe" --config "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.cfg" --install

To verify that ‘MongoDB’ has added successfully as service, open c:\myapp\log\mongod.log

2018-02-27T07:20:15.075-0700 I CONTROL  [main] Trying to install Windows service 'MongoDB'
2018-02-27T07:20:15.078-0700 I CONTROL  [main] Service 'MongoDB' (MongoDB) installed with command line '"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.exe" --config "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.cfg" --service'
2018-02-27T07:20:15.079-0700 I CONTROL  [main] Service can be started from the command line with 'net start MongoDB'

Use mongod.exe as service

• Start service: net start MongoDB
• Stop service: net stop MongoDB
• Remove: "C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.exe" --remove

  C:\>net start MongoDB
  The MongoDB service is starting.
  The MongoDB service was started successfully.
  

Connect to MongoDB

• Add environment variable: C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin
• Open cmd and run command: mongo (mongo.exe is the mongo shell in bin folder, since we added environment variable, cmd will recognize mongo command)