Overview

If you are looking for a phpadmin like tool for mongodb, RockMongo is your best bet. It is one of the best PHP MongoDB Administrator tool available today. It lets you create database, collections and insert and fetch documents using a web interface. This post will help you setup RockMongo

Install RockMongo for mongodb on CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu

The prerequisites include mongo-php-driver, lets install it first

On CentOS, RHEL

yum install php-devel git httpd

On Debian, Ubuntu

apt-get install php5-dev apache2 git

Pull mongo-php-driver from git

git clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver.git

cd mongo-php-driver/

phpize

./configure

make all

make install

Open php.ini and add the so that it gets loaded

On CentOS/RHEL

vi /etc/php.ini

On Debian, Ubuntu

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Append the following to it

extension=mongo.so

Download the latest rockmongo zip file and unzip it into root directory of the web server.

wget http://rockmongo.com/downloads/go?id=12

On CentOS/RHEL

mv rockmongo-1.1.5.zip /var/www/html/

On Debian, Ubuntu

mv rockmongo-1.1.5.zip /var/www/

Unzip the package

unzip rockmongo-1.1.5.zip

Restart apache

On CentOS, RHEL

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

On Debian, Ubuntu

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Open the web browser and point it to

http://ipaddress-or-hostname/rockmongo/index.php

Login using

username: admin password: admin