Use this command: brew services run mongodb-community MongoDB will start as a background service. The best way to start MongoDB now is via brew services. This no longer works out for the box from MongoDB v4.2.3 onwards. I feel like I probably made this install process needlessly complicated by doing something wrong, but maybe someone else will find my experience helpful. In the past, I can run the mongod command to start MongoDB. I then updated the path for mongodb.so in my php.ini, created the ext-mongodb.ini file, and restarted apache. Remove the symlink and then pecl can create the directory that it needs to. This one should work for Mac OS Catalina. There is an unused symlink in the directory where pecl is attempting to create a new directory. All the guides I found were over a year old and focused on OS-X or El Capitan. I solved this issue by following these instructions:Īlthough the instructions are for installing xdebug, the issue is the same for mongodb. I followed these instructions and was able to fix the php.h error.Īt that point, I started getting a new error when running pecl: ERROR: failed to mkdir /usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5/pecl/20170718

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