Is your Sitecore 8 package installer goes in never ending loop?

Friends - Have you started your Sitecore 8 Journey? How's it? It's awesome.. right?
You will observe many new things while exploring Sitecore 8. This post will talk about one of such things.

Scenario:
If you find that your Sitecore 8 package installer is going in never ending loop, then this post may help you.

Reason:
If you look at your logs during package installation, then you may find few errors reported by Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB. This tells that your Sitecore 8 instance is not able to connect with your Mongo DB.

Solution:
Well, solution is very simple. You need to start your MongoDB database process by firing below command:

mongod.exe --dbpath "[location of your MongoDB/data/db]"

For example:

mongod.exe --dbpath "C:\Program Files\MongoDB 2.6 Standard\data\db"

In case, if you haven't installed/configured MongoDB for your Sitecore 8 then you need to first setup MongoDB and then start MongoDB database process.

If you are looking for how to setup MongoDB then this link may help you.

After staring MongoDB database process, now try to install package in your Sitecore 8 instance and it should get installed without any issue.

Happy New Year To All Of Sitecore Journey Readers!!!

Happy New Year 2015! 
A very happy new year to all the readers of Sitecore Journey blog. May 2015 be a successful and happy year bringing you and your family good health and a lot of happiness!

2014 - Year in Review
2014 was a very successful year for Sitecore Journey! In-fact 2014 was special year for Sitecore Journey as it took first child step on 30th January 2014.

Throughout this 2014 year, Sitecore Journey achieved many milestones. 
Here are few highlights:

• 26 posts in less than one year.
• 6500+ total hits.
• Launched very useful Sitecore Module - "Sitecore Infromatics".
• Launched "Sitecore Interview Question Book" for beginners.
• Helped many Sitecore newbies through SDN forum.

This could not happen without your continuous reading and interest. I am thankful for having such a great crew of readers and associates who have continued to inspire me to always feel passionate about blogging.

Thank you for reading Sitecore Journey!!!