[DOCS-3354] Comment on: "manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows.txt" Created: 06/May/14  Updated: 14/Dec/16  Resolved: 23/Jan/15

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.17

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Nathan Arthur Assignee: Michael Paik
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: collector-298ba4e7
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

WIndows

Location: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36
Referrer: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/
Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050
repo: docs
source: tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows


Participants:
Days since reply: 9 years, 9 weeks ago

 Description   

Hello,

The instructions on this page are self-inconsistent and broken. It looks like you added an installer as the default download in 2.6.1, and then someone updated the "install as a service manually" section to try to match the paths that the installer uses (but they got it wrong), and they didn't update the rest of the doc. There are also bugs in the instructions provided.

To be clear:

  • The "install" instructions don't match the default download
  • The "install the service" instructions don't match the paths used in the "install" instructions
  • The "install the service" instructions don't match the paths used by the actual installer
  • The "install the service" instructions don't actually work, even if you fix the paths, because of quoting issues

Also, while I'm happy to see you working on a Windows installer, I'm not happy at all that it's putting mongo into 'program files' and into a directory with the version number in it. That makes it harder to use from the shell (see: the issues above) and harder to write convenience scripts for. It's also not really a net-benefit if I end up having to install the service manually anyway (with the tricky shell/quoting issues) - the installer should really do that automatically.

Thanks for all your work on MongoDB! If I can help, please let me know.



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 17/Dec/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-3354: adding db.eval deprecation notice
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/d2eb2614ec1c87e465774ed18209a1dfb2b65bbb

Comment by Sam Kleinman (Inactive) [ 06/May/14 ]

Thanks for this catch. I'm talking with folks who do the most work with MongoDB on windows as well as on the packaging itself, to try and figure out the best strategy for this moving forward. Also, thanks for your patience.

Cheers,
sam

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