We are setting up a MongoDB server for the production environment on Amazon EC2 instance, but could not able to start the service. I've followed this documentation for setup. Here are the steps, I've taken for setting up the server:

Added following to `/etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.0.repo`

[mongodb-org-3.0]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=http://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/3.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

And installed MongoDB 3.0.2 using `sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-3.0.2`

Created three partitions for data, journal & log:

sudo mkdir /mongo
sudo mkdir /mongo/data
sudo mkdir /mongo/log
sudo mkdir /mongo/journal

Created file system for three separate partitions:

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdb
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdc
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdd

Created entry in `fstab` for reboot:

echo '/dev/xvdb /mongo/data ext4 defaults,auto,noatime,noexec 0 0
/dev/xvdc /mongo/journal ext4 defaults,auto,noatime,noexec 0 0
/dev/xvdd /mongo/log ext4 defaults,auto,noatime,noexec 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

And mounted the partitions:

sudo mount /mongo/data
sudo mount /mongo/journal
sudo mount /mongo/log

Given the permissions and created link

sudo chown mongod:mongod /mongo/data /mongo/journal /mongo/log
sudo ln -s /mongo/journal /mongo/data/journal

Configured `ulimit` & read ahead settings as given in the documentation link above. Verified permissions and partitions:

[deployer@prod-mongo ~]$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1      8.0G  1.3G  6.8G  16% /
devtmpfs        3.6G     0  3.6G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.5G     0  3.5G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.5G   57M  3.4G   2% /run
tmpfs           3.5G     0  3.5G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/xvdc       7.8G   36M  7.3G   1% /mongo/journal
/dev/xvdb       150G   51M  149G   1% /mongo/data
/dev/xvdd       3.9G   16M  3.6G   1% /mongo/log

Permissions:

[deployer@prod-mongo ~]$ ll /
total 32
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root   root      7 Sep 29  2014 bin -> usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x.   4 root   root   4096 Sep 29  2014 boot
drwxr-xr-x.  17 root   root   2860 May 11 12:11 dev
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root   root      7 Sep 29  2014 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root   root      9 Sep 29  2014 lib64 -> usr/lib64
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root   root      6 Jun 10  2014 mnt
drwxr-xr-x.   5 mongod mongod   41 May 11 05:06 mongo
drwxr-xr-x.  21 root   root    660 May 11 12:47 run
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root   root      8 Sep 29  2014 sbin -> usr/sbin

Inside `/mongo`

[deployer@prod-mongo ~]$ ll /mongo/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x. 3 mongod mongod 4096 May 11 07:33 data
drwxr-xr-x. 3 mongod mongod 4096 May 11 07:31 journal
drwxr-xr-x. 3 mongod mongod 4096 May 11 08:58 log

After changing the configurations inside `/etc/mongodb.conf`

logpath=/mongo/log/mongod.log
dbpath=/mongo/data

Also, changed the SELinux setting to `permissive`. Now when I'm doing: `sudo service mongod start`, I'm getting this error:

Starting mongod (via systemctl): Job for mongod.service failed. See 'systemctl status mongod.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[FAILED]

Further logging:

[deployer@prod-mongo ~]$ sudo systemctl status mongod.service

mongod.service - SYSV: Mongo is a scalable, document-oriented database.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2015-05-12 04:42:10 UTC; 42s ago
Process: 22881 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.local runuser[22887]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user mongod by (uid=0)
May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.localdomain runuser[22887]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user mongod
May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.local mongod[22881]: Starting mongod: [FAILED]
May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.local systemd[1]: mongod.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.local systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Mongo is a scalable, document-oriented database..
May 11 04:42:10 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.local systemd[1]: Unit mongod.service entered failed state.

Kernal version from uname -a:

3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64

If I directly run the mongodb service from the normal user something like this: sudo mongod --config /etc/mongod.conf, then this service is starting properly but not as the system service?

I've followed various articles and blog posts and stackexchange answers, but didn't get any solution.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30182016/unable-to-start-mongodb-3-0-2-service-on-centos-7