How it works…

Similar to our first recipe, we downloaded a precompiled binary package and started the MongoDB server using the most basic command line parameter --dbpath such that it uses a customized directory ~/data/db for storing databases. As you might have noticed, MongoDB server by default, starts listening on TCP 27017 on all interfaces. We also saw how to add the MongoDB binary directory's path to our system's PATH variable for a more convenient way to access the MongoDB binaries.