mongod command not recognized when trying to connect to a mongodb server

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I am following the tutorials at docs mongodb org  I have completed the first tutorial which was to install mongodb on a windows machine  I am now at the second stage which is getting started with mongodb development  I am stuck at the first stage of this section which instructs me to type  mongo  into a system prompt  When I do this I simply get an error message saying the following  mongo  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file  I know this is probably something quite simple that I am doing wrong  does anyone have any ideas

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before using MongoDB you have to run it locally to do that   go to bin folder you will find at C  Program Files MongoDB Server 4 2 bin open mongod exe  will open a new terminal with server details  open mongo exe  will open the shell which allows you to interact with the database

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Apart from having a Path variable  the directory C  data db is mandatory    Create this and the error shall be solved

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First  make sure you have the environment variable set up    1  Right click on my computer  2  properties  3  advanced system settings  4  environment variables  5  edit the PATH variable  and add   C  mongoDb bin   to the PATH variable    Path in the quotes may  differ depending on your installation directory  Do not forget the last     as it was the main problem in my case

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1 To begin using MongoDB  Open CMD with admin privilege and type    quot C  Program Files MongoDB Server 4 2 bin mongo exe quot  2 To create data directory open another cmd terminal  cd C  md  quot  data db quot  3  To start your mongo DB database  type in cmd the following lines   quot C  Program Files MongoDB Server 4 2 bin mongod exe quot  --dbpath  quot c  data db quot   The --dbpath option points to your database directory    you can also do step 2 and 3 first and then step 1  ref https   docs mongodb com manual tutorial install-mongodb-on-windows

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if still not working for you then just close all of your command prompts and then again open and run mongo  mongoimport  mongodb from anywhere it ll work because after setting the path variable command prompt should be restarted

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For add environment variable please add   after bin like below  C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin    Then try below code in command prompt to run mongo server from parent folder of data folder   mongod -dbpath   data   For my case I am unable to run mongo from command prompt normal mode   You should run as administrator  It also works on git bash

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Are you sure that you have specified the correct paths    You need to be in the right directory   i e   C  Program Files MongoDB bin   and the path you are installing into needs to be the correct one  i e    mongod --dbpath  C  Users Name Documents myWebsites nodetest1   A folder named  data  must also exist in your project folder   I got the same error and this worked for me

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This worked for me    mongod  --dbpath c

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Adding MongoDb bin path in Environment path with   worked for me  This is what my system path  C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath          Other path variables      C  Users hitesh sahu AppData Local Android sdk platform-tools  C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin    Make sure -   Environment path must not have space between them Environment path must be saparated by

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putting backslash     at the end of path to bin of mongodb solved my problem

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Seems like  The environmental variable is not correctly set up    Go to the mongodb installation folder and get the executable files  mongo exe  mongod exe etc  location   In my case  Something like    C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin   Then go to    Panel  gt  System  amp  Security  gt  System  gt  Advanced System Settings  gt  Environment Variables    Find the PATH variable and edit its value  Then add C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 2 bin and don t forget to separate each values with    Now confirm and exit

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You need to add Mongo s bin folder to the  quot Path quot  Environment Variable Here s how on Windows 10   Find Mongo s bin folder   If you re not sure where it is  it s probably in C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 4  3 4 was the latest stable version at the time  this will be different for you probably  It should look like this   Notice this is the path to mongo exe and mongod exe  Adding this folder to the Path variable is telling Windows to search in this folder for executables matching your command when you run something in cmd  The search starts with the current working dir  and if it doesn t find your exe  goes on to search all the paths in Path till it finds it or it doesn t and it gives you that error you saw   Copy the path to the bin folder  It should be C  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 4 bin   Or whatever version you re using   Press win  type env  Windows will suggest  quot Edit the System Environment Variables quot   click that      On the Advanced tab  click  quot Environment Variables quot     Highlight the  quot Path quot  variable  click  quot Edit quot      This will bring up the  quot Edit environment variable quot  window  click  quot New quot     This will start a new line in the list of folders     Paste your path to the bin folder  Make sure it ends with a   like so     Press  quot OK quot    quot OK quot    quot OK quot   Now you should be able to run mongod and mongo from anywhere in a command window

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It is probably too late  but for the sake of others  like me  who faced the same problem  It is all about the little     at the end of the path variable  When you insert the path to MongoDB s bin directory at the end of the PATH windows variable  do not forget to put the      Backslash  at the end  which tells windows it is a directory and not an executable named bin     e g  I  Program Files MongoDB Server 3 0 bin

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You need to run mongod first in one cmd window then open another and type mongo  Make sure you updated your Windows Path environment variable too so that you don t have to navigate to the directory you have all of the mongo binaries in to start the application  To update the Path variable   Go to Control Panel   System  amp  Security   System   Advanced System Settings   Environment Variables   navigate to the Path variable hit Edit and add  C  mongodb to the Path  or whatever the directory name is where MongoDB is located  the semi-colon delimits each directory

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