Install MongoDB Enterprise on macOS

Download the tarball.

Download the MongoDB Enterprise tgz tarball from the following link:

➤ MongoDB Download Center

1. In the Version dropdown, select the version of MongoDB to download.

2. In the Platform dropdown, select macOS ARM 64.

3. In the Package dropdown, select tgz.

4. Click Download.

Extract the files from the downloaded archive.

tar -zxvf mongodb-macos-x86_64-enterprise-8.0.tgz

Ensure the binaries are in a directory listed in your PATH environment variable.

The MongoDB binaries are in the bin/ directory of the tarball. You can either:

• Copy the binaries into a directory listed in your PATH variable, such as /usr/local/bin. Replace /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/ with your installation directory.

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  Download the tarball.

  Download the MongoDB Enterprise tgz tarball from the following link:

  ➤ MongoDB Download Center

  1. In the Version dropdown, select the version of MongoDB to download.

  2. In the Platform dropdown, select macOS ARM 64.

  3. In the Package dropdown, select tgz.

  4. Click Download.

  2

  Extract the files from the downloaded archive.

  tar -zxvf mongodb-macos-arm64-enterprise-8.0.tgz

  If your web browser automatically unzips the file as part of the download, the file ends in .tar instead.

  3

  Ensure the binaries are in a directory listed in your PATH environment variable.

  The MongoDB binaries are in the bin/ directory of the tarball. You can either:

  • Copy the binaries into a directory listed in your PATH variable, such as /usr/local/bin. Replace /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/ with your installation directory.

    1

    Create the data directory.

    Before you start MongoDB for the first time, you must create the directory to which the mongod process will write data.

    For example, to create the ~/data/db directory:

    sudo mkdir -p ~/data/db

    2

    Create the log directory.

    You must also create the directory in which the mongod process will write its log file:

    For example, to create the ~/data/log/mongodb directory:

    sudo mkdir -p ~/data/log/mongodb

    3

    Set permissions for the data and log directories.

    Ensure that the user account running mongod has read and write permissions for these two directories. If you are running mongod as your own user account, and you just created the two directories above, they should already accessible to your user. Otherwise, you can use chown to set ownership, substituting the appropriate user:

    sudo chown <user> ~/data/db
    sudo chown <user> ~/data/log/mongodb

    4

    Run MongoDB.

    To run MongoDB, run the mongod process at the system prompt, providing the two parameters dbpath and logpath from above, and the fork parameter to run mongod in the background. Alternatively, you may choose to store the values for dbpath, logpath, fork, and many other parameters in a configuration file.

    Run mongod with command-line parameters

    Run the mongod process at the system prompt, providing the three necessary parameters directly on the command-line:

    mongod --dbpath ~/data/db --logpath ~/data/log/mongodb/mongo.log --fork

    Run mongod with a configuration file

    Run the mongod process at the system prompt, providing the path to a configuration file with the config parameter:

    mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

    macOS may prevent mongod from running after installation. If you receive a security error when starting mongod indicating that the developer could not be identified or verified, do the following to grant mongod access to run:

    • Open System Preferences

    • Select the Security and Privacy pane.

    • Under the General tab, click the button to the right of the message about mongod, labelled either Open Anyway or Allow Anyway depending on your version of macOS.

    5

    Verify that MongoDB has started successfully.

    Verify that MongoDB has started successfully:

    ps aux | grep -v grep | grep mongod

    If you do not see a mongod process running, check the logfile for any error messages.

    6

    Begin using MongoDB.

    Start a mongosh session on the same host machine as the mongod. You can run mongosh without any command-line options to connect to a mongod that is running on your localhost with the default port of 27017:

    mongosh

    For more information on connecting using mongosh, such as to connect to a mongod instance running on a different host and/or port, see the mongosh documentation.

    To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started with MongoDB for the available editions.

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