Neo4j - Setting up an instance

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In this post I am going to show you how to set up and start an external neo4j database instance.

This will be used extensively in later posts. 

Setting up a neo4j instance

First we will need to download an instance of the neo4j database. This can be found at the neo4j download site. 

After unzipping the files, to a location navigate to this location in a command prompt window. We will then need to find the bin folder. My location is C:/development_tools/neo4j/bin. 

Once in here type in you command window neo4j start.

This will start the neo4j database. Once startup has complete a default database will have been created under the data folder, and be called graph.db. This is the default location where data will be stored. If you ever want to clear this database you can just can just delete the folder graph.db and it will be recreated the next time you start neo4j. 

If you haven't adjusted any of the settings point your web browser to the url http://localhost:7474/ to access the web console.