# Filebeat apache2 module
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 14, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406 "2017-04-14T12:22:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nbrys](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nbrys)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406/1 "2017-04-14T12:22:21Z")
I'm currently trying to send apache2 logs using filebeat to elasticsearch. I've got the following at the end of my filebeat.yml file:
```
filebeat.modules:
- module: apache2
access:
var.paths = ["/var/log/apache2/access.log*"]
- module: system
```
But when i start filebeat, i get the following error:
Exiting: Error unpacking module config: Error creating config from fileset apache2/access: type 'string' is not supported on top level of config, only dictionary or list
Any idea on how to solve this? I have copied this code from the documentation ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/\_tutorial.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/_tutorial.html)) and changed nginx to apache2
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406/2 "2017-04-14T14:26:16Z")
Hi @nbrys, the YAML isn't valid due to indentation issues. Try yours at [http://www.yamllint.com/](http://www.yamllint.com/). Then compare that again to what's on the page you linked.
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### Author:  [@nbrys](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nbrys)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406/3 "2017-04-18T07:07:41Z")
Hi @andrewkroh, i've copied the config section from [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/\_tutorial.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/_tutorial.html)
If you paste it in [http://codebeautify.org/yaml-validator](http://codebeautify.org/yaml-validator) you get:
Error : Unable to parse.
Line : 4 var.paths = ["/var/log/nginx/access.log\*"]
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406/4 "2017-04-19T13:03:23Z")
I should have noticed that equals sign. It should not be there. Replace it with a `:` like
```auto
filebeat.modules:
- module: nginx
access:
var.paths: ["/var/log/nginx/access.log*"]
```
Can you please open an [issue](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new) in the Github repo for the documentation bug in the [file](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/filebeat/docs/modules-overview.asciidoc#variable-overrides).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-apache2-module/82406/5 "2017-05-17T13:11:30Z")
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