RockMongo is a free, open source GUI database administration tool for MongoDB, just like phpMyAdmin to MySQL/MariaDB. RockMongo makes the database administration tasks such as creating, editing, deleting databases, create tables, reports etc., much easier and faster. In this tutorial, we will see how to install RockMongo in Linux. If you haven't install MongoDB already, refer the following link to install it in various Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE etc.
Install RockMongo
RockMongo is a web-based database management tool, written using PHP 5 programming language. In order to install this, make sure you have installed a web server and PHP 5, and some additional dependencies. RockMongo will not work in PHP 7 version. So, I recommend you to use PHP 5.
Let us Install a web server (Apache), php 5, and some required dependencies. For the purpose of this guide, I will be using CentOS 7 64 bit server. Do not forget to set SELinux mode as permissive or disabled mode. Otherwise, you can't access the RockMongo dashboard from any remote system's browser.
On RHEL / CentOS:
$ sudo yum install httpd gcc php php-gd php-pear php-devel openssl-devel unzip wget
Start and enable the Apache service using the following command:
$ sudo systemctl start httpd
$ sudo systemctl enable httpd
Allow Apache webserver service through your firewall.
$ sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
$ sudo systemctl restart firewalld
Then, Install the php_mongo extension using command:
$ sudo pecl install mongo
Sample output:
[...] Build process completed successfully Installing '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so' install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mongo-1.6.14 configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location You should add "extension=mongo.so" to php.ini
Edit /etc/php.ini file,
$ sudo vi /etc/php.ini
And the following line:
extension=mongo.so
Save and close the file. Restart Apache service to take effect the changes.
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
Verify the extension is added or not using command:
$ php -m | grep -i mongo
You should see the following output:
mongo
Well, we have installed required prerequisites. Now, download the latest RockMongo version from the releases page.
Or, use the following command to download latest RockMongo version.
$ wget https://github.com/iwind/rockmongo/archive/master.zip
Extract the downloaded zip file using command:
$ unzip master.zip
Move the extracted folder to the web root folder as shown below.
$ sudo mv rockmongo-master/ /var/www/html/rockmongo
Restart httpd service:
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
Access RockMongo web console
Open the web browser, and navigate to http://IP-Address/rockmongo. You should see the following screen.
Enter the username and password. The default username and password is admin/admin.
Here it is how RockMongo dashboard looks like.
From here, you can create, rename, edit, delete databases, users, tables and more.
You can change the default username and password from the RockMongo config.php file.
To do so, edit config.php file:
$ sudo vi /var/www/html/rockmongo/config.php
Change the ports, host, and admins as per your liking.
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