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[Solved] MongoDB Server & Shell mongodb is not recognized as an internal and external command Error
Feb 12, 2025
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uh Hello friends welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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fix this mongod command is not
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recognized as an internal or external
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command so mongodb if you are accessing
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mongodb in the terminal and you are
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seeing this message there are quite a
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few reasons related to it I will show
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you some fixes in this video the very
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first thing we need to do uh you need to
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install mongodb server and also the
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shell as well where you can execute the
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commands so I'm assuming that you have
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installed it but if you haven't you then
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you need to install some softwares first
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of all first of all if you want a
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graphical user interface related to
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mongodb if you want to create tables see
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the tables in a graphical user interface
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and you need to install this mongodb
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Compass which is a free software so you
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can type on Google and click on the
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download button it's very simple it's
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called
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as you can say DB compass
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download so if you want the graphical
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user interface you can simply download
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this I've already downloaded mongodb
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Compass it's very simple when you launch
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this they show this connect
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button and it is you can create
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databases using gu GUI but if you want
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to access it in the terminal you need a
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another software which is mongodb shell
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if you just type mongodb shell download
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and then it will
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actually re redirected to this web page
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and here you can download This by
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clicking the download button it's again
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a exe file uh
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mongod D which is the actual server of
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mongodb if you are seeing this message
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then we need to add the path in the
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environment variable so just search here
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environment variable and right here you
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need to go to the global path variable
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and here you need to edit this and add a
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new path where the mongodb in
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installed
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so typically if you haven't change the
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installation directory by default
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mongodb is stored in the C directory and
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then here you need to search for the
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program files directory right here so
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just need to go into this directory and
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here you need to find out mongodb so by
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default it will create a mongodb folder
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right here you will see that mongodb and
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here we need to go to the server so
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there are two folders out there server
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and shell so I individually downloaded
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the server and shell and created this
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folder and pasted these two folders so
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one by by one we need to first of all
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for the server we need to add
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this go to the bin folder and then this
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is your mongod D actual application so
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here if you open the command line and
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type the same command mongod
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D you will see the command will be
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successful but we want this command to
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be globally recognized for this we just
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need to copy this path and copy this
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path right click it and then add add
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this a new entry in the environment
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variable path so just add this to the
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path here and same thing we will do this
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for the shell as well so there is a
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second folder if you see which is shell
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folder so go into this folder and go
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into the B bin folder and this is your
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mongodb shell so again if you open the
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terminal here and type the command
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shell so you will see it will get
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connected here shell
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so again we need to copy this
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path and add this into the environment
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variable so just paste it so as soon as
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you paste it now click okay
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okay and then you need to restart the
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terminals again open the terminal right
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here and now if you type here mongod D
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you'll see the command will be
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successful and same goes with
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shell as well
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so now if you only want to use the
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mongodb on the terminal you don't want
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this graphical user interface you can
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close the connection right here click on
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disconnect so now the connection is
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disconnected you can close this and now
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if you want to access shell you
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will see this error if if I type the
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same command
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shell so Shel is successful but
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now if you want to interact with the
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database we first of all need to create
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the connection for
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mongod so this is actually creating a
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error here because for starting this
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mongodb server in the terminal we need
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to create a database folder so just
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inside any directory let me go to the C
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directory and create a new folder which
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is DB so here all the information will
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be stored which whatever tables that you
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will create databases that you will
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create so just create a
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c DB folder so you can create any folder
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according to your name so I just created
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this DB folder so now if I start this
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mongod server I will just give this
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location of the
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folder so the command will look like
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D and here you need to specify DB
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path and here you need to give the full
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path of that folder so it is located in
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C drive and/ DB so you need to give path
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in double codes so this is actually the
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command here so just copy this command
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and now enter it so now if you see the
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connection will be successful so now you
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need don't need to close this just open
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this in one window and now open the
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second terminal and now open the com
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shell so just type shell so
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here you can let's suppose I want to get
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a list of all the
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databases we can give a show command
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here show databases so it will show you
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all the databases that are there inside
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your mongodb
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and now you can even create a new
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database by using the use command so
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use followed by your database name so it
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will be switched to that database then
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you can create a collection or a table
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like this all these commands are there
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so the data will be inserted you will
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see that it will get a response so if
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you want to now show all the tables
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which are there in this database so you
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will say show Collections and then you
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can find out the data so DB my
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collection this is the name of the table
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and we have the find
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function so in this way the data will be
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returned to you like this so this is a t
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data stored in this table so or
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collection so in this way I showed you
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step by step how to get started or fix
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that error and install shell and
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use mongod DB inside your terminal so
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