# Logstash do not allow absolute file path
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-do-not-allow-absolute-file-path/213339
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 30, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-do-not-allow-absolute-file-path/213339 "2019-12-30T11:47:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Vo\_Minh\_Tri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vo_Minh_Tri)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-do-not-allow-absolute-file-path/213339/1 "2019-12-30T11:47:38Z")
I'm running elk stack on my Windows environment. It's work well with
`path => "/opt/in/*.log.*"`
but It always throws _File paths must be absolute, relative path specified_ when I change to absolute path `"C:/Users/vmtri/Desktop/*.log*"`
Here is my logstash config:
> ```
> input {
>
> file {
>
> path => "C:/Users/vmtri/Desktop/*.log*"
>
> start_position => beginning
>
> codec => multiline {
>
> pattern => "^%{TIME} "
>
> negate => true
>
> what => previous
>
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
> output {
>
> elasticsearch {
>
> hosts => "elasticsearch:9200"
>
> }
>
> file {
>
> # we use file output only to debug our grok filter
>
> path => "/opt/logstash.out"
>
> }
>
> }
>
> ```
and here is exception:
> ```
> $ docker-compose up --abort-on-container-exit
> Starting 423edae21c43_logstash_for_axon_ivy_elasticsearch_1 ... done
> Starting logstash_for_axon_ivy_kibana_1 ... done
> Starting logstash_for_axon_ivy_logstash_1 ... done
> ...
> logstash_1 | [2019-12-30T11:56:04,166][INFO][logstash.inputs.tcp] Starting tcp input listener {:address=>"0.0.0.0:5000", :ssl_enable=>"false"}
> logstash_1 | [2019-12-30T11:56:04,526][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Error registering plugin {:pipeline_id=>"main", :plugin=>"\"beginning\", path=>[\"C:/Users/vmtri/Desktop/ch.ivyteam.ivy.log\"], codec=>\"^%{TIME} \", what=>\"previous\", id=>\"ad365467-2919-450f-9e39-23c3f484f553\", negate=>true, enable_metric=>true, charset=>\"UTF-8\", multiline_tag=>\"multiline\", max_lines=>500, max_bytes=>10485760>, id=>\"d4078cfb698596db61455a4f088a30abddad28f95408c256bbe216cc06b4701c\", enable_metric=>true, stat_interval=>1.0, discover_interval=>15, sincedb_write_interval=>15.0, delimiter=>\"\\n\", close_older=>3600.0, mode=>\"tail\", file_completed_action=>\"delete\", sincedb_clean_after=>1209600.0, file_chunk_size=>32768, file_chunk_count=>140737488355327, file_sort_by=>\"last_modified\", file_sort_direction=>\"asc\">", :error=>"File paths must be absolute, relative path specified: C:/Users/vmtri/Desktop/ch.ivyteam.ivy.log", :thread=>"#"}
> logstash_1 | [2019-12-30T11:56:10,059][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline aborted due to error {:pipeline_id=>"main", :exception=>#, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-file-4.1.8/lib/logstash/inputs/file.rb:269:in `block in register'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-file-4.1.8/lib/logstash/inputs/file.rb:267:in `register'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:242:in `register_plugin'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:253:in `block in register_plugins'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:253:in `register_plugins'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:396:in `start_inputs'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:294:in `start_workers'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:200:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:160:in `block in start'"], :thread=>"#"}
> logstash_1 | [2019-12-30T11:56:10,073][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:id=>:main, :action_type=>LogStash::ConvergeResult::FailedAction, :message=>"Could not execute action: PipelineAction::Create, action_result: false", :backtrace=>nil}
> logstash_1 | [2019-12-30T11:56:10,291][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
> logstash_for_axon_ivy_logstash_1 exited with code 0
> Stopping logstash_for_axon_ivy_kibana_1 ... done
> Stopping 423edae21c43_logstash_for_axon_ivy_elasticsearch_1 ... done
> Aborting on container exit...
>
> ```
Could someone please help me check anything wrong.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-do-not-allow-absolute-file-path/213339/2 "2020-01-27T12:02:14Z")
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