Question

I’m using the nginx/PHP/MongoDB stack and trying to set up my development environment on Windows by creating two batch files.

start.bat

cd C:\www\nginx
start nginx
cd C:\www\php
start php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000
cd C:\www\mongodb
start mongod

stop.bat

cd C:\www\nginx
nginx -s quit
cd C:\www\php
taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe
cd C:\www\mongodb
mongo --eval "use admin; db.shutdownServer(); quit"  # this doesn't work
mongo --eval stop_mongod.js  # this doesn't work either

Using taskkill to stop mongod isn’t an option, since that may lead to data corruption.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

From the mongo shell documentation:

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use dbname

This command does not work in scripted mode. Instead you will need to explicitly define the database in the connection (/dbname in the example above).

Alternately, you can also create a connection within the script:

db2 = connect("server:27017/otherdbname")

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I’ve come up with the following code:
Save the following snippet in stop_mongod.js file:

 db = connect("localhost:27017/admin");
 db.shutdownServer();
 quit();

Adjust the connection string if necessary. Then from the command line or within your batch script:

mongo stop_mongod.js