Getting setup with MongoDB and Python, Pymongo, and Bottle on Centos 6

From my older blog. Originally posted Oct 26th 2012

I had to walk through all of this to get setup for my Mongo Developer and Administrator certification classes. I figured I might help you out and put it all together instead of you having to hunt all over the place for this info.

Lets get started…

Step 1: Install MongoDB

To install MongoDB on your fedora system, issue the following commands in your terminal:

su -

Lets make sure that mongo hasnt already been installed while you were playing around with it…

yum -y remove libmongodb mongodb mongodb-server

Setup the mongodb repo…

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

For 32 Bit, place the following code on that file:
http://gist.github.com/3949816#file_32bit.repo

and for 64 Bit this one:
http://gist.github.com/3949816#file_64bit.repo

Installation…
Run these two commands.

yum install mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server
mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf

Then open your Mongo Shell in terminal (to ensure it’s functional) with:

mongo

and close it by pressing Ctrl+C; Then add the mongo service to the system’s startup with:

chkconfig --levels 235 mongod on

Reboot and reopen the Mongo Shell with the command:

mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf && mongo

Close it with Ctrl+C and then go to:
http://localhost:27017/
In your web browser, you should see something like this:

“You are trying to access MongoDB on the native driver port. For http diagnostic access, add 1000 to the port number”

If you see this then you have it installed and setup correctly.

Step2. Installing Python, Pymongo, and Python-Bottle

First a little background…

Python – Python is a general-purpose, interpreted high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Its syntax is said to be clear and expressive.Python has a large and comprehensive standard library. More info can be found here: http://www.python.org/

Pymongo – PyMongo is a Python distribution containing tools for working with MongoDB, and is the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python. More info can be found here: http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/

Bottle – Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. More info is here: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

If you haven’t already you need to install the EPEL repo for Centos 6

Check to see if you already have it installed or not…

yum repolist

You will see something similar to this:

repo id      repo name              status
base         CentOS-6 - Base        6,294
extras       CentOS-6 - Extras      4
updates      CentOS-6 - Updates     830
repolist:                           7,128

Since you dont see it above you need to grab the package…
http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/epel/6/i386/repoview/epel-release.html

-OR-

wget "http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm"

Note… the version number in the rpm name…if you are looking at this very late after the pub date of this post then you likely need to grab a more current version. Just follow the link above and you should see it.

do this next to test the rpm…

rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm --test

You will get back a NO KEY message.

You now need to download and install the key from FedoraProject and install on your system…

wget https://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
mv 0608B895.txt /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

Verify that the key got installed successfully…

rpm -qa gpg*
gpg-pubkey-0608b895-4bd22942

Now install the epel-release-6-6.noarch package, which will enable EPEL repository on your system…

rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Now verify that the EPEL repo is working correctly…

yum repolist

You should see a line that looks similar to this:

epel      Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64      7,345

Now lets get Python, Pymongo and Bottle setup…

Pretty simple and straight forward…

sudo yum -y install python python-setuptools python-setuptools-devel
sudo yum -y install python-bson pymongo pymongo-gridfs

To install bottle you may need to install PIP first…
You can do this using curl and python…

curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python

Then install bottle…

pip install bottle