Install MongoDB

• Use a 64-bit EC2 Amazon Linux instance to install MongoDB
• Add a MongoDB yum repository for a 64-bit RPM

  sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo

  [10gen]
  name=10gen Repository
  baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64
  gpgcheck=0

• Install MongoDB

  sudo yum install mongo-10gen and mongo-10gen-server

• Setup the data directory

  sudo mkdir -p /data/db/

   If a new EBS storage is mounted for the data directory, mount with the noatime and nodiratime atributes

• Start MongoDB

  sudo mongod

   For production environment, change the owner of mongo to a local user instead of root and start with mongod

MongoDB Installation Smoke test

• Start MongoDB client

  mongo

• Insert and retrieve data

  db.things.save( { 'stage' : 'test' } )
  db.things.find()
  { "_id" : ObjectId("4db76912b5c36fabd0006041"), "stage" : "test" }
  exit

For PHP support on MongoDB

• Install PHP if not done

  sudo yum install gcc
  sudo yum install make
  
  sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl
  sudo yum install php
  sudo yum install php-devel php-pear
  sudo yum install pcre-devel

• Install MongoDB driver for Amazon Linux

  sudo pecl install mongo

• Enable the driver

  sudo vi /etc/php.d/mongo.ini

  extension=mongo.so

Sample PHP code in using MongoDB

<?php

$db = new Mongo();

// Select the store DB
$db = $db->store;

// Select a collection
$collection = $db->users;

// Insert
$person = array( "name" => "David Jones", "age" => 30 );
$collection->insert($person);

// find data
$cursor = $collection->find();

// iterate through the results
foreach ($cursor as $data) {
    echo $data["name"] . "\n";
}

?>