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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 937

how do I edit the Mondodb.conf file

How do I edit the mongodb.conf file?

I want to change the bind_ip from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0.

I have tried sudo mongod --bind_ip 0.0.0.0 I have tried manually editing the file (in a text editor), but it won't let me save. I have tried changing the permissions of the file, yet I still can not save.

I didn't create a mongodb.conf file either, so I'm not sure why it was automatically set up as 127.0.0.1

I'm using Ubuntu.

I've tried searching around but I haven't had any luck.

All suggestions will be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 29319

Answers (4)

Aquaphor
Aquaphor

Reputation: 158

If you're on windows and are wondering how to edit the config file.

  1. Open the file
  2. Edit the cfg file however you want.
  3. Save as and save it to another folder somewhere else
  4. Copy/cut and past the file back into the bin folder and accept admin permission
  5. Go to windows services and stop->start/restart the MongoDB server service.

Done

Upvotes: 2

jimoleary
jimoleary

Reputation: 1645

Both the /etc/mongod.conf and /var/log/mongodb/mongob.log files are write restricted to super users. Your standard login account is not allowed to directly modify them.

To edit the mongod.conf file , open a terminal and run the following command (sudo will ask you for your password):

gksudo gedit /etc/mongod.conf

Edit the file to add 0.0.0.0 (or just comment the line out ), save the mongodb.conf file.

In addition mongod is a service on ubuntu so you'll need to run following command in the terminal to restart it to read the new config: 

sudo service mongod restart

You can read about sudo here

Upvotes: 13

Elias Bundala
Elias Bundala

Reputation: 174

using aws ubuntu instance i ssh to my instance using putty navigate to the file directory and i used the command

sudo pico mongodb.conf

the file opened and i edited my file then saved it by following onscreen commands

Upvotes: 1

ajduke
ajduke

Reputation: 5057

trying using your specified mongodb.conf to mongo deamon

use following command to start the mongod daemon

mongod -f <file-locattion>/mongodb.conf

and in your mongodb.conf file add following 

    bind_ip=<your-pref-ip>
   <rest of setting -such as data-folder etc>

Upvotes: 1

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