How to install and run MongoDB GUI on Ubuntu 20.04

The following are the different ways to install mongo-gui.

From npm:

Install the module globally using the command :

npm install -g mongo-gui

Then use the command to run the application

mongo-gui 

From github:

First of all, clone the mongo-gui repository using the command git clone https://github.com/arunbandari/mongo-gui or download the zip file from here.

Change the directory to mongo-gui 

cd mongo-gui

Install all the dependencies npm install

Start the application using either 

npm start or node server.js 

Note: Node.js must be installed on your machine to run this application

From Docker Hub:

Docker compose

version: '3'

services:

  mongo-gui:

    container_name: "mongo-gui"

    image: ugleiton/mongo-gui

    restart: always

    ports:

      - "4321:4321"

    environment:

      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017

Mongo GUI Usage

The commands mongo-gui and npm start or node server.js start the application with the following configuaration:

URL (-u): mongodb://localhost:27017

PORT (-p): 4321

and the application will be accesible at http://localhost:4321

To connect to any other mongodb instance, pass mongo connection string as an argument, eg:

Installed via npm: mongo-gui -u mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@host/<dbnames>?retryWrites=true&w=majority'

Installed via github: (npm start --/node server.js) -u mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@host/<dbnames>?retryWrites=true&w=majority'

Available options:

-u: url, mongo-gui tries to connect to this mongodb instance

-p: port, mongo-gui listens on this port

Failed to start mongod.service: Unit mongod.service not found Solved !

When I started MongoDB got an error as:

"Failed to start mongod.service: Unit mongod.service not found."

Check port and configuration

sudo nano /etc/mongod.conf

Solution:

sudo systemctl unmask mongod

and re-run

sudo service mongod start

sudo service mongod status

sudo systemctl enable mongod

sudo service mongod restart

service mongod stop
#dont start mongod…instead…

systemctl start mongod
#then mongo command

#then

mongo