Install MongoDB on Mac OS X 10.9

install-mongodb.md

Install MongoDB with Homebrew

brew install mongodb
mkdir -p /data/db

Set permissions for the data directory

Ensure that user account running mongod has correct permissions for the directory:

sudo chmod 0755 /data/db
sudo chown $USER /data/db

Run MongoDB!

iTerm buffer 1: mongod
iTerm buffer 2: mongo

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Note: If you get something like this:

exception in initAndListen: 10309 Unable to create/open lock file: /data/db/mongod.lock errno:13 Permission denied Is a mongod instance already running?, terminating

It means that /data/db lacks required permission and ownership.

Run ls -ld /data/db/

Output should look like this (gibber is directory owner and wheel is group to which gibber belongs):

drwxr-xr-x  7 gibber  wheel  238 Aug  5 11:07 /data/db/

Gr8 thx

Note: If sudo chown /data/db is not working, use sudo chown -R /data/db. That fixed it for me!

where exactly do you make the "data/db" directory?

UPDATE:

I had to run the line with sudo in-front like so: sudo mkdir -p /data/db

after this it asked for my password and i then was able to run MongoDB.
source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7948789/mongodb-mongod-complains-that-there-is-no-data-db-folder

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I had to change sudo chown $USER /data/db to sudo chown -R $USER /data/db (added '-R' flag) to make it work.

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In my case : sudo chown -R $USER /data/configdb/ , make it work !

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How come it's still giving me an error when I ran all of these?

Permission denied src/mongo/db/storage/wiredtiger/wiredtiger_kv_engine.cpp 416

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