MongoDB Installation

Drivers

Bitnami Installs on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Note:The Bitnami packages come with an instance of MongoDB and the drivers already installed. No further action is necessary.

Linux

• Ensure that you have the php-pear and php5-dev packages installed on your system. You will also need the pcre3 and sasl2 development libraries.

  • $ sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev libpcre3-dev libsasl2-dev

• Use PECL to make the mongo.so file

  • $ sudo pecl install mongo

Note:If the the install generates any errors it will fail. You will need to troubleshoot based on the error reported.

• Create a module file for your mongo installation.

  • $ sudo touch /etc/php5/mods-available/mongo.ini

• Edit the file you just created in your preferred text editor.

There is a single line in the file it looks like this:

• extension=mongo.so

• Enable the php extension

  • $ sudo php5enmod mongo

• Restart your web service service

  • $ sudo service apache2 restart

    or

  • $ sudo service nginx restart