How do you keep mongo running on a remote server?

Question

When running mongo on a remote aws server (ubuntu) what is the best way to keep a mongo instance running after sshing to it to start it?

Answer 1

Take a look here. In short, you should use mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongod.log

Answer 2

Start it as a service. Here's the command

sudo service mongod start

Answer 3

You should be able to use the auto-generated init script if you installed the -10gen distro: http://www.mkyong.com/mongodb/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

Answer 4

You can use screen too for this purpose.

First execute the command

screen

Then run your server using

mongod --dbpath=/example/dbpath

Then detach it by pressing ctrl+a and then pressing d