问题I have installed mongodb on my mac Catalina 10.15. I have php7.3 version installed as well. Now, I want to use the mongoClient class with PHP. I tried composer require mongodb/mongodb but it says. Installing MongoDB on Mac Catalina using Homebrew This entry was posted in MongoDB and tagged Security troubleshooting on January 10, 2020 by Dan Wahlin I recently bought a new iMac and moved all of my files over using Time Machine. How to install MongoDB on Catalina OS. Prerequisites: Catalina macOS; Familiarity with the command terminal on your Mac; Download the MongoDB installation files: MongoDB recommends that we use the more complete version of MongoDB Server, so we recommend downloading the MongoDB Enterprise version for macOS in TGZ format. Extract the files.

If you are like me, running mongo servers on cloud IDE’s is just not the same as the customizations I have in my visual studio code. The need to test MongoDB servers locally sounds like an ideal option but I was running into issues trying to get the darn thing installed.

All the guides I found were over a year old and focused on OS-X or El Capitan. This one should work for Mac OS Catalina. This is an attempt to capture how to install MongoDB and run the Mongod (MongoDB Daemon) in some personal notes that may help someone in the future (at least myself). Originally, I tried following various installation guides that all failed to find the formula and ran into odd errors about directories that didn’t exist is read-only. My hope is that this will be a good reference for you.

If you are running Catalina, the old way of changing permissions for data/db don’t work !

Steps to Install MongoDB locally

Create/open a project or clone a repo then head to the folder above that one.

First, you need brew installed. You can find instructions for that here: https://brew.sh/, then run:

Mongodb Install Macos Catalina

Seriously, it’s that easy. No need to run chmod like on other setups, you now have mongod and mongo running. You can test this by running:

Mongodb Install Mac Catalina Os

You should see something like:

Install Mongodb Mac Catalina

This means you did it!