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• Go to your c:/ drive and create a folder “mongodb“
• Download mongoDB from this link: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads (the download button is located under “Community Server” tab)
• Select “Custom” when installing the software

• Install mongoDB in the following path: c:/mongodb
• Go to your c:/ drive then create a new folder “data“, inside it create another folder “db“
• Start MongoDB in your command prompt by executing the following command: C:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe

Congratulations, you have successfully installed MongoDB  in Windows.

Moving on, let us now configure XAMPP

• Download the mongoDB driver from this link: http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/mongo/1.6.11/php_mongo-1.6.11-5.6-ts-vc11-x86.zip
• Open the ZIP file then extract the file: php_mongo.dll to C:\xampp\php\ext directory.
• Go to xampp/php/ and open up php.ini using your favorite editor, add the following lines to your extensions: extension=php_mongo.dll
• Restart XAMPP.

To verify that you have successfully configured mongoDB in XAMPP, create a file in your xampp/htdocs folder, in it put the following code:

Now access this file in your browser. Ex. “localhost/testfile.php”

You should see that MongoDB is already installed: