# Can't run ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** windows-installer\
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842 "2020-06-26T11:06:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![zepp\_e](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zepp_e/32/71181_2.png) [@zepp\_e](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zepp_e)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/1 "2020-06-26T11:06:24Z")

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Hey guys,

I try to install ElasticSearch but when I download it and try to set it up via the command window it looks like the following:

'// C:\Users\josef\>cd C:\Program Files\elasticsearch-7.8.0

C:\Program Files\elasticsearch-7.8.0\>bin\elasticsearch.bat  
"Files\elasticsearch-7.8.0\jdk""" kann syntaktisch an dieser Stelle nicht verarbeitet werden.'

Can anybody help me with that? Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![Szanik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/szanik/32/68608_2.png) [@Szanik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Szanik)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/2 "2020-07-08T10:44:09Z")

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Having the same problem.  
Just posting so it gets up

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/3 "2020-07-12T23:03:48Z")

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> [@zepp\_e](#):
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> kann syntaktisch an dieser Stelle nicht verarbeitet werden

Google translate tells me that is;

> cannot be processed syntactically at this point

Is that right\>

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**Author:** ![Szanik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/szanik/32/68608_2.png) [@Szanik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Szanik)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/4 "2020-07-20T11:35:23Z")

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I tried it again with an english language package.  
The Output is:

> Files\elasticsearch-7.8.0\jdk"" was unexpected at this time

Seems like it cut of the path, because my installation is in C:\Program Files

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/5 "2020-07-20T23:07:08Z")

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I don't think it works well with directories that have spaces in the name, try another directory.

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**Author:** ![Szanik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/szanik/32/68608_2.png) [@Szanik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Szanik)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/6 "2020-07-22T08:11:58Z")

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Ok it's weird that 7.7 doesn't have this issue.

Tried it with another folder without a space in it's name.  
Now i get the following exception:

```
Error: Could not find or load main class org.elasticsearch.common.settings.KeyStoreCli
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/elasticsearch/cli/LoggingAwareMultiComman
Error: Could not find or load main class org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch
```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-run-elasticsearch/238842/7 "2020-08-19T08:12:09Z")

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