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JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By : Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie, Ray Rischpater
Book Image

JavaScript JSON Cookbook

By: Ray Rischpater, Brian Ritchie, Ray Rischpater

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JavaScript JSON Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up MongoDB


Installing MongoDB varies by platform; on Linux, you may be able to use a package installer such as apt, while on Windows and Mac OS X (as well as on Linux, if you have a distribution that doesn't have a package manager with the MongoDB package), there are web downloads.

How to do it…

  1. On Mac OS X and Windows, it's as easy as going to http://www.mongodb.org/ and follow the download link. At the time of writing, MongoDB is at version 2.6.7; there's a release candidate for version 3.0, which we won't discuss further here.

    Mongo also provides packages for several common Linux distributions, including Debian and Fedora. There's also a package available for FreeBSD.

  2. Once you download and install Mongo, you need to make a place for MongoDB to store its database.

    This varies by platform; on Windows, it's c:\data\db.

  3. Once you do this, you can start the database server by running mongod. You may also want to add the path to the MongoDB client and server binaries in your path so that you...