How to add mongod to the command prompt in windows 10

Daniel Munoz

Sometimes when installing software, it might not give you an option to set an environment variable. This happened to me with mongodb.

What are Environment Variables

An environment variable can be thought of as a path to an executable program. Having this set is useful if you want to run programs through the command prompt instead of having to open them in a file explorer.

How to add mongod to the environment Variables

Here are the steps to add mongod to the environment variables in Windows 10, after installing mongodb.

Find the path to the mongodb folder in your program files.
Then go to the bin folder If you’re not sure where it is, it’s probably in C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\. It should look like this:

Windows 10 MongoDB bin folder in File Explorer

Copy the path of the bin folder, this should be C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin
Press the Windows key and then type “env”. (If you dont have a Windows key you can press ctrl and esc or navigate to the start window.) Windows will suggest “Edit the system environment variables”, click it.
In the Advanced tab, click “Environment Variables”.

Windows 10 MongoDB bin folder in File Explorer

With the Path variable highlighted in “System Variables”, click “Edit”:

Windows 10 MongoDB bin folder in File Explorer

Click “New”
Paste your path of the copied bin folder from earlier. Make sure it ends with a \ like so:

Windows 10 MongoDB bin folder in File Explorer

click “OK” until you are out of the system properties

Conclusion

Now you should be able to run mongod and mongo from anywhere in the command prompt.

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