# Installing kibana on a windows server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342 "2015-11-11T17:22:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![inlikefletch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inlikefletch/32/4834_2.png) [@inlikefletch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inlikefletch)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/1 "2015-11-11T17:22:53Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wiebe_tijsma/32/6965_2.png) [@Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wiebe_Tijsma)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/2 "2016-01-05T14:07:35Z")

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

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/3 "2016-01-05T16:33:03Z")

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What version of kibana are you trying to install?

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**Author:** ![Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wiebe_tijsma/32/6965_2.png) [@Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wiebe_Tijsma)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/4 "2016-01-06T08:48:08Z")

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I'm trying to run the latest version, 4.3.1

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**Author:** ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/5 "2016-01-06T13:20:49Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wiebe_tijsma/32/6965_2.png) [@Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wiebe_Tijsma)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/6 "2016-01-06T13:44:58Z")

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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
```

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**Author:** ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/7 "2016-01-06T14:08:30Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wiebe_tijsma/32/6965_2.png) [@Wiebe\_Tijsma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wiebe_Tijsma)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/8 "2016-01-11T09:26:25Z")

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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!

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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 6, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-kibana-on-a-windows-server/34342/9 "2017-07-06T14:05:22Z")

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