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Install MongoDB Community Edition on Amazon Linux¶
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Overview¶
Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Community Edition on Amazon Linux from .rpm packages.
This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.
Packages¶
MongoDB provides officially supported packages in their own repository. This repository contains the following packages:
| mongodb-org | A metapackage that will automatically install the four component packages listed below. |
| mongodb-org-server | Contains the mongod daemon and associated configuration and init scripts. |
| mongodb-org-mongos | Contains the mongos daemon. |
| mongodb-org-shell | Contains the mongo shell. |
| mongodb-org-tools | Contains the following MongoDB tools: mongoimport bsondump, mongodump, mongoexport, mongofiles, mongooplog, mongoperf, mongorestore, mongostat, and mongotop. |
The default /etc/mongod.conf configuration file supplied by the packages have bind_ip set to 127.0.0.1 by default. Modify this setting as needed for your environment before initializing a replica set.
Init Scripts¶
The mongodb-org package includes various init scripts, including the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod. You can use these scripts to stop, start, and restart daemon processes.
The package configures MongoDB using the /etc/mongod.conf file in conjunction with the init scripts. See the Configuration File reference for documentation of settings available in the configuration file.
As of version 3.2.3, there are no init scripts for mongos. The mongos process is used only in sharding. You can use the mongod init script to derive your own mongos init script for use in such environments. See the mongos reference for configuration details.
Install MongoDB Community Edition¶
Note
To install a version of MongoDB prior to 3.2, please refer to that version’s documentation. For example, see version 3.0.
This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.
Configure the package management system (yum).¶
Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.2.repo file so that you can install MongoDB directly, using yum.
Changed in version 3.0: MongoDB Linux packages are in a new repository beginning with 3.0.
For the latest stable release of MongoDB¶
Use the following repository file:
[mongodb-org-3.2]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/3.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
For versions of MongoDB earlier than 3.0¶
To install the packages from an earlier release series, such as 2.4 or 2.6, you can specify the release series in the repository configuration. For example, to restrict your system to the 2.6 release series, create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-2.6.repo file to hold the following configuration information for the MongoDB 2.6 repository:
[mongodb-org-2.6]
name=MongoDB 2.6 Repository
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
You can find .repo files for each release in the repository itself. Remember that odd-numbered minor release versions (e.g. 2.5) are development versions and are unsuitable for production use.
Install the MongoDB packages and associated tools.¶
When you install the packages, you choose whether to install the current release or a previous one. This step provides the commands for both.
To install the latest stable version of MongoDB, issue the following command:
sudo yum install -y mongodb-org
To install a specific release of MongoDB, specify each component package individually and append the version number to the package name, as in the following example:
sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-3.2.3 mongodb-org-server-3.2.3 mongodb-org-shell-3.2.3 mongodb-org-mongos-3.2.3 mongodb-org-tools-3.2.3
You can specify any available version of MongoDB. However yum will upgrade the packages when a newer version becomes available. To prevent unintended upgrades, pin the package. To pin a package, add the following exclude directive to your /etc/yum.conf file:
exclude=mongodb-org,mongodb-org-server,mongodb-org-shell,mongodb-org-mongos,mongodb-org-tools
Run MongoDB Community Edition¶
The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /var/lib/mongo and its log files in /var/log/mongodb by default, and runs using the mongod user account. You can specify alternate log and data file directories in /etc/mongod.conf. See systemLog.path and storage.dbPath for additional information.
If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongo and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories.
Verify that MongoDB has started successfully¶
You can verify that the mongod process has started successfully by checking the contents of the log file at /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log for a line reading
[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port <port>
where <port> is the port configured in /etc/mongod.conf, 27017 by default.
You can optionally ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot by issuing the following command:
sudo chkconfig mongod on
Begin using MongoDB.¶
To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started for the available editions.
Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document.
Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C in the terminal where the mongod instance is running.
Uninstall MongoDB Community Edition¶
To completely remove MongoDB from a system, you must remove the MongoDB applications themselves, the configuration files, and any directories containing data and logs. The following section guides you through the necessary steps.
Warning
This process will completely remove MongoDB, its configuration, and all databases. This process is not reversible, so ensure that all of your configuration and data is backed up before proceeding.
Remove Packages.¶
Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.
sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)
Remove Data Directories.¶
Remove MongoDB databases and log files.
sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo
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