All language subtitles for 002 Installing MongoDB on Windows_en

First things first. Head over to mongodb.com and we're going to click on get MongoDB to download

it.

Now you should be taken to the MongoDB download center and the first tab that's usually selected by

default is their cloud service

so the MongoDB Atlas service which we're going to explore a little bit later on when we actually deploy

our database.

But for now we want to choose the service tab.

And down here you should have your Windows version already pre-selected

and we're going to select the current version of MongoDB.

Now it's really important that you change this package from zip to MSI

because this is going to download a installation wizard and it'll make everything a lot easier for us

going forward.

So once you're done here then just go ahead and click download and now download should begin.

Now once download is completed you should be able to head into your Downloads folder and see this installation

wizard.

It's going to be called something like mongodb

something something something

.msi.

And this is going to be your installer.

And so now if you double click on it it will launch the installation wizard and all you have to do is

click next.

And then we're going to accept the terms of the license and we're going to choose the complete installation

and then you're going to select Run service as a network service user and make note of this directory

path that they've created here for you.

This is where they're going to install MongoDB. It's going to be on the C:\Program Files/MongoDB/

server\4.0.

And I recommend keeping to this exact same file path because we'll need a little bit later on.

So keep it the same and keep a note of it and we're going to come back to it a little bit later on.

So then you're going to select next and we're going to uncheck install MongoDB compass because

we don't actually need it.

And then click next and finally click install to start the installation.

And once installation has complete simply click Finish and you'll exit out of the installation wizard.

All right.

So now that we've successfully installed MongoDB using the installer, if you now go into your C-drive

and you take a look at your program files you should see a folder called MongoDB and inside there's something

called server

and then there's the version of the MongoDB that you installed.

and then finally we get access to our binaries.

Now the next thing I want to do is I'm going to set up the data folder where MongoDB will save our

databases on our local system.

So I want you to go ahead into your C drive,

so make sure that up here says your C drive, and then you're going to create a new folder here and it's going

to be called data.

And then inside that data folder we're going to create a new folder called db and just make sure that

you've typed everything exactly as I have which is lower case data

and then inside data there's something called db. And we're going to leave all of that empty but just check

up here to see that you've got exactly the same kind of file path and directories as I have.

So inside your C drive you got a folder called data inside data

you've got something called db.

Now that we've successfully installed MongoDB we have to get it set up so that we can use it easily

through the hyper terminal.

And in order to do that we first have to check something.

So if you head into Explorer and just go into your C-drive and then scroll down until you see Program

Files, double click on that and we're going to scroll down until we find MongoDB.

Here it is.

And then we're going to go inside that folder and then inside the folder called server.

So now you should see a folder with a version number and this corresponds to the rough version of your

MongoDB

and this says 4.0.

And we want to set up a shortcut so that we can launch our mongo.exe and mongod.exe straight from

our hyper terminal using bash.

And now I want you to open up your hyper terminal and just change directory to your home folder by typing

in cd and then adding the tilde sign.

And once you've navigated there, I want you to go ahead and create a new file called .dash_

profile and it has to be spelt exactly this way.

And then hit enter to create it.

And now that should be created if we do an ls -a we should be able to see it in a list of files

here and there it is .bash_profile.

So this is a hidden file that we've created which is going to tell our hyperterminal that when it starts

up and we want to access mongo and mongod we have a shortcut for it.

So now that we've created that file now we're going to edit it using vim.

So to do that we're going to type vim and then we're going to specify the file that we want to edit which

was .bash_profile.

So now if you hit enter this will now open up that file using the vim text editor which is a command

line based text editor.

Now there's a lot of memes around the vim editor and it's because it's not a graphical user interface

so there aren't any buttons to click on and it's a little bit more complex to get to grips with.

But I'm going to quickly show you how you can use it in a very simple way.

So firstly in order to stand actually be able to type anything in the vim editor we're going to hit

the i key, so 'i' for indigo on your keyboard and that will initiate the insert mode. And now you can actually

start typing stuff into this editor. And you can either type this out although it's kind of error prone.

So I would recommend that you head over to the written installations for MongoDB for Windows and there's

a link to this

in the course resources for this module.

And I just want you to scroll down to this part where you see there's this alias mongodb alias mongo

and a file path that we've specified.

I just want you to go ahead and copy both of those two lines and then paste it into vim. So you can

either use the shortcut or you can simply just navigate to it from this little menu icon at the top.

Now the thing you have to change here is we saw earlier on what was the version that you saw and C - program

files - MongoDB - server.

And for me it's 4.0.

Now if you're installing this at some point in the future that might read 4.1 or 5.0 I just want you

to change this part of the code to whatever it is you see there so that they match because this has

to be an entire file path that leads to mongo.exe and mongod.exe.

So if you go ahead again look inside your Explorer and you navigate from local disk C to program

files to MongoDB to server to 4.0 to bin, then you can see here is where our mongo.exe

and mongod.exe reside.

So this file path is going to lead to those files and we're creating simply an alias that makes it easier

for us to work with it inside our hyper terminal.

So if you need to edit this then just go ahead and change these parts to whatever it is that you see

in your version.

And then we're going to go ahead and save and exit vim which can be a little bit tricky but it's not

too hard. You just have to hit ESC to exit insert mode and we're going to type :wq and then

the !.

And now if you hit enter you would have saved that file and you would have exited vim.

So now we're ready to test and see whether if our installation has succeeded.

I want you to go ahead and close down your hyper terminal and you're going to simply relaunch it.

So now that we've restarted our hyper terminal then it's time to test and see if our installation has

succeeded. And we'll do that by writing mongo --version and hit enter.

Now if you see something that looks like this where it says MongoDB shell version 4.0.3 or a new version

but something that looks like this, then congratulations you have completed all of the setup and installation

of MongoDB and you're ready to proceed to the next lesson.

Now if you see something else such as bash mongo not found or something like that where it doesn't look

like this, then be sure to retrace your steps and maybe follow all of the instructions in the written

tutorials and just make sure that you haven't made any typos and anything that you're typing in looks

exactly the same or simply just copy and paste it from the instructions.

But now that we've completed installation and setup then you're ready to get started learning about

MongoDB.