# Logstash installation folder in Windows
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 8, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872 "2017-01-08T10:44:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Firass\_Gzayil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Firass_Gzayil)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/1 "2017-01-08T10:44:04Z")
Hi,
I am trying to run logstash under c:\program files
but I get an error
An unexpected error occurred! :error =\> bad URI(is not URI?): file://C:/Program Files/Infra/Data/Shipper/logstash5/config/log4j2.properties, :backtrace =\> ["C:/Program Files/Infra/Data/Shipper/logstash5/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/uri/common.rb:176:in `split'"
If I install it in a folder without space in the path then it would work fine
Is there a way to overcome this problem ? it is very urgent thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/2 "2017-01-08T23:38:02Z")
What version are you on?
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### Author:  [@Firass\_Gzayil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Firass_Gzayil)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/3 "2017-01-09T00:33:37Z")
The latest
5.1.1
Windows 10
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### Author:  [@Firass\_Gzayil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Firass_Gzayil)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/4 "2017-01-10T08:37:29Z")
Any idea?
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### Author:  [@Firass\_Gzayil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Firass_Gzayil)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/5 "2017-01-11T10:19:55Z")
After digging in the code, I found the problem
Logstash assumes that the setting dir is relative to the location of the execution folder, and if the execution folder path contains spaces, then it will fail
The bug should be solved; however i found a way to workaround this problem by providing settings path param with escaped value , e.g.
> bin\logstash -f c:\ProgramData\Infra\Data\Shipper\Config\shipper.conf --path.settings c:/Program%20Files/Infra/Data/Shipper/logstash-5.1.1/config
or to place logstash configuration in c:\programdata and provide the location using --path.settings
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/6 "2017-01-11T19:25:24Z")
Are you able to raise this as an issue Github please? 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-installation-folder-in-windows/70872/7 "2017-02-08T19:25:41Z")
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