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MongoDB 1.4 has been finally released and is now tagged with “ready for production”.

Here is a small excerpt of the changelog:

Core server enhancements

• concurrency improvements
• indexing memory improvements
• background index creation

Replication & Sharding

• better handling for restarting slaves offline for a while
• fast new slaves from snapshots
• $inc replication fixes

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This short tutorial will describe how to use MongoDB together with XAMPP.

It is tested with the following environment:

• Windows 7 – 32 Bit
• XAMPP 1.7.3
• MongoDB 1.2.4

1. In the first step we have to download XAMPP and MongoDB (together with the PHP driver for MongoDB).

2. Create the directory datadb on your c drive (–> c:\datadb).

3. Unpack the MongoDB zip file to a disired destination

4. Install XAMPP (do not install MySQL as a service)

5.  Go into your XAMPP directory (something like xampp\php) and add the following line to the file php.ini

extension=php_mongo.dll

6. Unzip the php_mongo.dll to the follwing directory: xampp\php\ext

7. Start the Apache with the XAMPP Control Center

8. Start MongoDB server ( MongoDBDirectory\bin\mongod.exe )

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