Install MongoDB Community on Amazon Linux using .tgz Tarball

Download the tarball.

After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download the MongoDB Community tgz tarball from the following link:

➤ MongoDB Download Center

1. In the Version dropdown, select the version of MongoDB to download.

2. In the Platform dropdown, select your operating system version and architecture.

3. In the Package dropdown, select tgz.

4. Click Download.

Extract the files from the downloaded archive.

Using an archive manager program or the tar command, extract the files. For example, to extract from the terminal shell, you can use the following tar command:

tar -zxvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-*-4.4.29.tgz

Optional. Ensure the binaries are in a directory listed in your PATH environment variable.

The MongoDB binaries are in the <mongodb-install-directory>/bin directory. To avoid having to specify the path to the MongoDB binaries, add the contents of the <mongodb-install-directory>/bin/ directory to a directory in the $PATH such as /usr/bin/. For example, you can either:

• Copy the binaries into /usr/bin/.

  sudo cp <mongodb-install-directory>/bin/* /usr/bin/

  -OR-

• Create symbolic links to each of these binaries to /usr/bin/:

  sudo ln -s /full/path/to/<mongodb-install-directory>/bin/* /usr/bin/

  Replace /full/path/to with the full path to the extracted directory contents.

Create the data and log directories.

Create a directory where the MongoDB instance stores its data. For example:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mongo

Create a directory where the MongoDB instance stores its log. For example:

sudo mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb

The user that starts the MongoDB process must have read and write permission to these directories. For example, if you intend to run MongoDB as yourself:

sudo chown `whoami` /var/lib/mongo     # Or substitute another user
sudo chown `whoami` /var/log/mongodb   # Or substitute another user

Run MongoDB.

To run MongoDB, run the mongod process at the system prompt.

mongod --dbpath /var/lib/mongo --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log --fork

For details on the command-line options --dbpath and --logpath, see Options.

Verify that MongoDB has started successfully.

Verify that MongoDB has started successfully by checking the process output for the following line in the log file /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log:

[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

You may see non-critical warnings in the process output. As long as you see the log line shown above, you can safely ignore these warnings during your initial evaluation of MongoDB.

Begin using MongoDB.

Start a mongo shell on the same host machine as the mongod. You can run the mongo shell without any command-line options to connect to a mongod that is running on your localhost with default port 27017:

mongo

For more information on connecting using the mongo shell, such as to connect to a mongod instance running on a different host and/or port, see The mongo Shell.

To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. For the driver documentation, see Start Developing with MongoDB.