Install MongoDB on cPanel or CentOS

Install MongoDB on cPanel or CentOS

MongoDB is a free and open-source database. It will help you to integrate data in certain types of applications easier and faster. This post will help you to install MongoDB on cPanel or CentOS.

Steps: Install MongoDB

Please enable MongoDB official repo to install the latest stable version of MongoDB.

 
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

Add the following to it.

 
[mongodb]
name=MongoDB Repo
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Then, run following command to install MongoDB.

 
yum install mongodb-org-server mongodb-org

Create a directory /data/db

 
mkdir -p /data/db

start the “mongod” daemon.

 
/etc/init.d/mongod start

You now have MongoDB installed and running. The prompt will look like this:

 
# mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.12
connecting to: test
>

Once the installation completed, enable the “mongod” daemon on chkconfig. It will make sure the “mongod” daemon automatically start after the server reboot.

 
chkconfig mongod on

To get summary List of Status Statistics

 
mongostat

Install MongoDB PHP Extension

You need to install MongoDB PHP Extension after the successful installation of MongoDB. You can install it via pecl.

 
pecl install mongo

Then please run the following command to make sure the PHP module is loaded properly.

 
php -m | grep mongo

That’s it!

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