When I go into the mongo shell in my terminal, it always starts with the database test, which is the wrong database. Can you set mongo to start in a specific database?
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When I go into the mongo shell in my terminal, it always starts with the database test, which is the wrong database. Can you set mongo to start in a specific database?
Command Line
You can select the database to use on the mongo command line, eg for ‘mydb’:
If a database name is not provided, ‘test’ will be used.
In .mongorc.js
If you want to set a default database without specifying on the command line each time, you can add a line to the
.mongorc.jsfile in your home directory:The
.mongorc.jsfile is executed after themongoshell is started, so if you set a default here it will override a database specified on the command line.