Installation Overview There are two primary ways to install MongoDB on a Mac. The best way to install MongoDB is with Homebrew. The other way to install MongoDB is by downloading it from the the MongoDB website.
Install and Run MongoDB with Homebrew Open the Terminal app and type
brew update
After updating Homebrew
brew install mongodb
After downloading Mongo, create the “db” directory. This is where the Mongo data files will live. You can create the directory in the default location by running
sudo mkdir -p /data/db
Or when running use different location of database:
mongod --dbpath /usr/local/mongodb-data
Make sure that the /data/db directory has the right permissions by running
sudo chown -R /data/db
Enter your password
Run the Mongo daemon, in one of your terminal windows run
mongod
mongod --rest #run deamon with web interface on http://localhost:28017
This should start the Mongo server.
Run the Mongo shell, with the Mongo daemon running in one terminal, type
mongo
in another terminal window. This will run the Mongo shell which is an application to access data in MongoDB. To exit the Mongo shell run
quit()
To stop the Mongo daemon hit ctrl-c