MongoDB Documentation, Release 3.0.4 Install MongoDB Enterprise Run MongoDB Enterprise mongod Run without specifying paths If your system PATH variable includes the location of the mongod binary and if you use the default data directory (i.e., /data/db ), simply enter mongod at the system prompt: Step 3: Run MongoDB. To run MongoDB, run the mongod process at the system prompt. If necessary, specify the path of the mongod or the data directory. See the following examples. Step 2: Set permissions for the data directory. Before running mongod for the first time, ensure that the user account running mongod has read and write permissions for the directory. mkdir -p /data/db The following example command creates the default /data/db directory: Step 1: Create the data directory. Before you start MongoDB for the first time, create the directory to which the mongod process will write data. By default, the mongod process uses the /data/db directory. If you create a directory other than this one, you must specify that directory in the dbpath option when starting the mongod process later in this procedure. Chapter 2. Install MongoDB 48 The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /data/db 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 /data/db and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories. Step 2: Ensure the location of the MongoDB binaries is included in the PATH variable. Once you have copied the MongoDB binaries to their target location, ensure that the location is included in your PATH variable. If it is not, either include it or create symbolic links from the binaries to a directory that is included. Step 1: Download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages. After you have installed the required pre- requisite packages, download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages from https://mongodb.com/download/. The MongoDB binaries are located in the bin/ directory of the archive. To download and install, use the following sequence of commands. Note: The Enterprise packages include an example SNMP configuration file named mongod.conf . This file is not a MongoDB configuration file. curl -O https://downloads.mongodb.com/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.0.4.tgz tar -zxvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.0.4.tgz cp -R -n mongodb-linux-x86_64-enterprise-amzn64-3.0.4/ mongodb