Installing kibana on a windows server

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Attempting to install kibana on my elasticsearch node and get the following error:

PS C:\Users\user> C:\kibana-4.2.0-windows\bin\kibana.bat
module.js:338
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'C:\kibana-4.2.0-windows\src\cli'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
at startup (node.js:129:16)
at node.js:814:3

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jason

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2

I have exactly the same problem, did you find a solution yet?

Thanks!

3

What version of kibana are you trying to install?

4

I'm trying to run the latest version, 4.3.1

5

What is the correct path for your kibana install, and does your error also say that it was looking directly inside C:\ ?

6

I've extracted kibana to C:\tools\kibana, and the output when I try to run is:
module.js:338
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'C:\tools\kibana\src\cli'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
at startup (node.js:129:16)
at node.js:814:3

which is correct as the 'src' directory doesn't exist there:

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----         5-1-2016     14:06                bin
d-----         5-1-2016     14:06                config
d-----       16-12-2015     09:55                installedPlugins
d-----         5-1-2016     14:06                node
d-----         5-1-2016     15:40                node_modules
-a----         5-1-2016     14:06            563 LICENSE.txt
-a----         5-1-2016     15:40            782 package.json
-a----         5-1-2016     14:06           2266 README.txt
7

I wonder if there was an error while extracting the archive. It seems to have missed both src and webpackShims after README.txt.

Can you try downloading and extracting again?

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Oh wow I have no idea how that happened, the right folders are in the zip file. All works good now, thanks!