Installing MongoDB on a Mac with Homebrew

Installing MongoDB on Mac OS X
 

1. Open the Terminal app and type

% brew update

2. 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
% sudo chown [user_name] /data/db

Run the Mongo daemon, in one of your terminal windows run

% mongod

This should start the Mongo server.

Run the Mongo shell, with the Mongo daemon running in one terminal, type below in another terminal window.

mongo

1. This will run the Mongo shell which is an application to access data in MongoDB.
2. To exit the Mongo shell run quit()
3. To stop the Mongo daemon hit ctrl-c

Installing MongoDB Driver running on PHP

• Before installing MongoDB driver, you should check your PHP version first. Actually there are various version of PHP version. In my case, php version is 7.1.7

%php -ver
PHP 7.1.7 (cli) (built: Jul 15 2017 18:08:09) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies