Setting up the environment

To set up the environment in Windows, follow these instructions:

Create the config file (for example at C:\mongodb\mongo.conf) with the following contents:

systemLog:
 destination: file 
 path: "C:\\mongodb\\log\\mongo.log"
storage:
 dbPath: "C:\\mongodb\\data\\"

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CAUTION: This file format is white space sensitive. Make sure to use spaces instead of tabs for indentation.

Note: You are free to choose different folder locations, but make sure they all exist or MongoDB will fail to launch.