# Elastic Search not getting installed in CentOS

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-getting-installed-in-centos/96609>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-getting-installed-in-centos/96609 "2017-08-10T12:22:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vineeth604](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/73ab20/32.png) [@Vineeth604](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vineeth604)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-getting-installed-in-centos/96609/1 "2017-08-10T12:22:27Z")

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While installing elastic search, we are facing issue related to the logging and following error message is getting displayed:

Unable to create file /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log java.io.IOException: Could not create directory /var/log/elasticsearch  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.FileUtils.mkdir(FileUtils.java:119)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.FileUtils.makeParentDirs(FileUtils.java:136)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$RollingFileManagerFactory.createManager(RollingFileManager.java:573)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager$RollingFileManagerFactory.createManager(RollingFileManager.java:554)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractManager.getManager(AbstractManager.java:112)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.getManager(OutputStreamManager.java:114)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager.getFileManager(RollingFileManager.java:155)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingFileAppender.java:131)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingFileAppender.java:60)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:122)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:952)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:892)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:884)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:508)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize(AbstractConfiguration.java:232)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:244)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:545)  
at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:261)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:166)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator.configure(LogConfigurator.java:122)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:316)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122)  
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91)  
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-getting-installed-in-centos/96609/2 "2017-08-10T13:12:06Z")

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Probably a wrong installation here of elasticsearch. I'd recommend reading the installation guide.

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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:** [September 7, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-getting-installed-in-centos/96609/3 "2017-09-07T13:12:20Z")

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