Got “Access is denied” when I tried to install 64-bit mongodb in Windows server 2008

Question

All I did is to run below script: D:\Tools\MongoDb\bin\mongod.exe --dbpath D:\MongoDb\data\

Then I got exception: Error connecting to the service Control Manager: Access is denied. (5)

I was using administrator account to operate this, I already created folders related to the script.

And I didn't experience issue like this when I installed 32-bit mongodb in 32-bit Windows Server 2003.

I appreciate any help about this!

Answer 1

You need to install it from the command prompt that you have opened with the Run as Administrator option

Answer 2

From Admin command prompt execute:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin>mongod.exe -config "c:\data\mongod.cfg" -install
2018-03-20T08:55:00.541+0530 I CONTROL  [main] log file "c:\data\log\mongod.log"
 exists; moved to "c:\data\log\mongod.log.2018-03-20T03-25-00".

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin>net start MongoDB
The MongoDB service is starting..
The MongoDB service was started successfully.