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Now a good way to get started if you want to learn more about any of the features mongodb provides is

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to dive into the official docs,

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even though that sounds a bit cheap, it indeed is a good way to learn about all the available options

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and things you can configure. In the official docs,

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you will find the detailed docs for the mongodb server which is what we're using right now and there,

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most important for you are either the frequently asked questions at the bottom, you find of course docs

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for all the features but we'll cover them in this course but you should also check out the installation

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docs to make sure you've got everything set up correctly.

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We did this in a first course module though, so that should be the case,

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so then the mongo shell docs are also interesting because here, you can learn more about how to use that

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mongo shell and how to configure that.

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Now the documentation is one good place but obviously, there also are some important or interesting things

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that I want to show you right away.

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So let's do that and for that, let me open your terminal, here

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I did open a brand new terminal or on windows you would open the command prompt and I currently have

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no mongodb server up and running,

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so no mongodb process is running in any terminal window.

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Now you learned that on Mac, you can start a new server with sudo mongod,

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on Windows it was just mongod and you can start the shell and connect to a running server with the mongo

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command

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assuming that you did follow the setup steps in the first course module where we also configured the

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path variables.

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So this is how you can start these processes,

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now the mongod command actually can be configured with a couple of flags.

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We already saw the --port flag for example to change the default port,

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now there are more flags and you can see all flags or options with the help command, --help.

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This is quite a long list because the server can be configured in various ways and we'll dive into some

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of the features like authentication in a separate module of this course but you can definitely go through

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this list to get a feeling for what you can generally configure

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and now there are a couple of options which I will walk through together with you in the next lectures.