# Elasticsearch installation at VPS

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 30, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860 "2016-04-30T13:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![waqarasghar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@waqarasghar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/waqarasghar)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860/1 "2016-04-30T13:35:30Z")

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We are trying to install elasticsearch v1.4.4 at our inmotionhosting VPS server. However the service is crashing again and again. Does anyone faced similar issue and how did you install successfully.

We are having the following issue:

_error: permission denied on key 'vm.max\_map\_count'_

_CT-3033-bash-4.1# log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (common)._

_log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly._

_log4j:WARN See [http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig](http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig) for more info._

Any guidance would be of great help.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,  
Waqar

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860/2 "2016-05-02T11:19:36Z")

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Hi Waqar,

it seems you're running into this issue: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/4978](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/4978)

It is fixed by [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/8793](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/8793) in Elasticsearch 1.5.

So your easiest option should be to upgrade to Elasticsearch 1.5 at least if possible.

Daniel

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**Author:** ![waqarasghar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@waqarasghar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/waqarasghar)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860/3 "2016-05-02T13:46:35Z")

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> [@danielmitterdorfer](#):
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> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Many thanks. Seems like this is same issue so I would try v1.5 as suggest. Thank you very much for your help.

Cheers,  
Waqar

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860/4 "2016-05-02T13:47:40Z")

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Hi Waqar,

you're welcome. I hope upgrading resolves the issue for you.

Daniel

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-installation-at-vps/48860/5 "2017-07-05T22:54:40Z")

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