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Type:
Improvement
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Resolution: Done
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Priority:
Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Environment:Mac OSX (latest) or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, MongoDB v2.6.1
*Location*: http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tools/http-interfaces/
*User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.122 Safari/537.36
*Referrer*: https://www.google.com/
*Screen Resolution*: 1680 x 1050
*repo*: docs-ecosystem
*source*: tools/http-interfaces
Mac OSX (latest) or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, MongoDB v2.6.1 *Location*: http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tools/http-interfaces/ *User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.122 Safari/537.36 *Referrer*: https://www.google.com/ *Screen Resolution*: 1680 x 1050 *repo*: docs-ecosystem *source*: tools/http-interfaces
The http interface only works if mongod is invoked with --rest. There are several mentions of the http interface throughout the MongoDB documentation that make it seem like you can just point a browser at 28017 and view the information of interest. Please update the documentation to include the steps required to enable the http interface.