Let’s see the steps to add MongoDB to Plesk. Bobcares can handle your Plesk issues with our Plesk Hosting Support Services.

How to add MongoDB to Plesk servers?

MongoDB is a free and open-source document-oriented database. It provides high performance, high availability, and simple scalability. As it does not use a traditional relational database structure, we can definitely say it is a NoSQL database. Instead, it uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas.

MongoDB does not require a predefined schema to add data to a database. Users can change the schema as often as they like. There is no need to create a new database with an updated schema.

Software requirements of Plesk list all third-party software it supports. From that, we can see MongoDB database servers are not supported by Plesk. So we need to deploy MongoDB in a remote Docker container.

The steps to add MongoDB to Plesk servers via Docker are as follows:

• Firstly, sign in to Plesk.
• Then go to Plesk >> Docker.
• In the Docker catalog search field, type mongo.
• In order to automatically download and start MongoDB instance deployment, click the Run button.
• Disable automatic port mapping. And manually map the MongoDB instance to the localhost port. All MongoDB connections will be served at the external port.
• We have to ensure that both data and setup survive the Docker container restarts. So map the Docker container to a location on the file system.
• In order to change the root password, add the variables MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME and MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD.
• To deploy and start the Docker container, click OK.
• Add a connection to the Plesk server using SSH to add MongoDB to Plesk.
• Check that MongoDB is listening for new connections:

  # ss -tlpn | grep 27017

  LISTEN 0 128 :::27017 :::*
• Start MongoDB shell installation.
• Finally, verify the addition of MongoDB connectivity from the localhost by running the Mongo shell on the Plesk server:

  #mongo

  MongoDB shell version: 2.6.10
  
  connecting to: test
  
  Welcome to the MongoDB shell.
  
  For interactive help, type "help".
  
  For more comprehensive documentation, see
  
  http://docs.mongodb.org/
  
  Questions? Try the support group
  
  http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user
  
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We added MongoDB to Plesk servers using the above steps.

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Conclusion

In this article, we have provided simple steps from our Tech team to add MongoDB to Plesk via the Docker container.