Starting a single node instance using command-line options
In this recipe, we will see how to start a standalone single node server with some command-line options. We will see an example where we want to do the following:
- Start the server listening to port
27000 - Logs should be written to
/logs/mongo.log - The database directory is
/data/mongo/db
As the server has been started for development purposes, we don't want to preallocate full-size database files. (We will soon see what this means.)
Getting ready
If you have already seen and executed the Installing single node MongoDB recipe, you need not do anything different. If all these prerequisites are met, we are good for this recipe.
How to do it…
- The
/data/mongo/dbdirectory for the database and/logs/ ...
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