mongodb on AWS ec2 redhat linux

Question

I am trying to install mongodb on my production instance, following this tutorial .
Everything seems to be fine, im seeing mongo on info.php and the sample connection is working.

But, when i run mongod or service mongod start from command line
i get mongod: unrecognized service

Also when i run sudo find / -type f -name *mongo* this is what i get.

/home/userName/.npm/mongodb/1.1.3/package/lib/mongodb/responses/mongo_reply.js
/home/userName/.npm/mongodb/1.1.3/package/lib/mongodb/connection/mongos.js
/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so
/usr/share/pear/.registry/.channel.pecl.php.net/mongo.reg
/usr/share/vim/vim72/keymap/mongolian_utf-8.vim

question what am i missing?
Up until now i have been testing locally on a windows machine.

Answer 1

You need to install the database package itself (you have so far installed all the libraries to connect to it, but not the database). Follow the instructions here:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-redhat-centos-or-fedora-linux/

And you will have the appropriate service as needed.