# Data.path problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-path-problem/188902
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-path-problem/188902 "2019-07-04T11:33:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Rafa\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafa_M)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-path-problem/188902/1 "2019-07-04T11:33:22Z")
Hello,
I installed logstash in a different path of default path. When I'm trying to launch more than 1 pipeline I'm getting the following error:
`Logstash could not be started because there is already another instance using the configured data directory. If you wish to run multiple instances, you must change the "path.data" setting.`
I have configured the logstash.yml with this lines:
```
http.host: "0.0.0.0"
log.level: debug
path.data: /aplicaciones/logstash/data/
path.config: /aplicaciones/logstash/config/
```
Can sombody help me?
Thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@AquaX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AquaX)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-path-problem/188902/2 "2019-07-06T21:49:41Z")
Are you remembering to tell logstash about the new logstash.yml file when you launch it?
`/path/to/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /aplicaciones/logstash/logstash.yml`
You have to define the second logstash.yml settings file manually otherwise it will look at the $LS\_SETTING\_DIR environment variable.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-path-problem/188902/3 "2019-08-03T21:49:53Z")
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