# Kibana.yml file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560 "2017-01-04T13:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JohnG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohnG)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560/1 "2017-01-04T13:42:13Z")

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Hi,

I've just installed Kibana and all the installation guides I've seen tell me I need to slightly amend this file. However they all give it's location as /opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml but mine is in /etc/kibana/kibana.yml

Is this an installation error and if not will it cause any problems?

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560/2 "2017-01-04T20:21:18Z")

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Hi John,

I'm afraid it depends on the version of Kibana. Older 4.x versions used the path /opt/kibana/config/kibana.yml but that has been changed in 5.x to /etc/kibana/kibana.yml (which is consistent with Elasticsearch also).

Also the Kibana installation used to be under /opt/kibana but is now under /usr/share/kibana (consistent with Elasticsearch again).

Which version of Kibana are you using and what is the link to the documentation you're using?

Regards,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![JohnG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JohnG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohnG)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560/3 "2017-01-05T08:28:43Z")

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Thanks Lee,

I realised well into the process the installation instructions I had were out of date. I have found more recent instructions that I'm going to follow.

Thanks again for the response.

John

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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:** [February 2, 2017, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-yml-file/70560/4 "2017-02-02T08:29:21Z")

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