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Updated internal documentation on MongoDB.
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Valera Rozuvan
2014-01-29 19:18:59 -08:00
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@@ -21,13 +21,30 @@ Install the following:
### Databases
First start up the mongo daemon. E.g. to start it up in the background
using a config file:
First start up the MongoDB daemon. E.g. to start it up in the background
using a config file (sometimes using `sudo` is required):
mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf &
Check out the course data directories that you want to work with into the
`GITHUB_REPO_ROOT` (by default, `../data`). Then run the following command:
On some Linux distributions the configuration script is located at:
/etc/mongodb.conf
If MongoDB does not start properly, it might be the case that there is a stray
lock file somewhere, or that the configuration file is corrupt. In this case
try deleting the lock files, and then running the MongoDB repair script:
sudo rm -rf /data/db/mongod.lock
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock
sudo -u mongodb mongod -f /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf --repair
To verify that MongoDB started up OK, run the MongoDB client:
mongo
After MongoDB daemon is successfully running, check out the course data
directories that you want to work with into the `GITHUB_REPO_ROOT` (by default,
`../data`). Then run the following command:
rake resetdb