# Logstash twitter input - ubuntu server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142 "2018-03-01T19:12:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![angeliczka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@angeliczka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/angeliczka)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142/1 "2018-03-01T19:12:04Z")

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Hello  
I am a newbie and I am trying to deploy an elastic stack on a server for the first time, running an ubuntu VM. Elasticsearch and Kibana are working fine, however, I am not getting any indices from logstash, doesn't seem to be working. I have previously run the logstash and elastic locally on my machine and the same configuration was working fine. My first question is where is the .conf file suppose to be placed in? as the directory is bit more confusing then it was when installed locally. is it .../usr/share/logstash/bin/ or .../etc/logstash/conf.d/?  
My twitter.conf file:

```
input {
  twitter {
      consumer_key => "..."
      consumer_secret => "..."
      oauth_token => "..."
      oauth_token_secret => ".."
      keywords => ["london"]
      full_tweet => true
      use_samples => true
      languages => ["en"]
  }
}
output {
    elasticsearch{ }
}

```

when i run `sudo /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f twitter.conf` i get an error

```
WARNING: Could not find logstash.yml which is typically located in $LS_HOME/conf ig or /etc/logstash. You can specify the path using --path.settings. Continuing using the defaults
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /usr/share/logstash/config/log4j2.pr operties. Using default config which logs errors to the console
[INFO] 2018-03-01 18:48:40.740 [main] scaffold - Initializing module {:module_n ame=>"fb_apache", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/fb_apache/configurati on"}
[INFO] 2018-03-01 18:48:40.750 [main] scaffold - Initializing module {:module_n ame=>"netflow", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"}
[WARN] 2018-03-01 18:48:41.099 [LogStash::Runner] multilocal - Ignoring the 'pi pelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[INFO] 2018-03-01 18:48:41.371 [LogStash::Runner] runner - Starting Logstash {" logstash.version"=>"6.2.2"}
[INFO] 2018-03-01 18:48:41.403 [Ruby-0-Thread-1: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bun dle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:22] configpathloader - No conf ig files found in path {:path=>"/home/angelika1/twitter.conf"}
[ERROR] 2018-03-01 18:48:41.414 [Ruby-0-Thread-1: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bun dle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:22] sourceloader - No configur ation found in the configured sources.
```

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142/2 "2018-03-01T20:11:07Z")

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> My first question is where is the .conf file suppose to be placed in? as the directory is bit more confusing then it was when installed locally. is it .../usr/share/logstash/bin/ or .../etc/logstash/conf.d/?

The latter. **Never** place configuration files in a bin directory.

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**Author:** ![angeliczka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@angeliczka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/angeliczka)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142/3 "2018-03-01T20:22:04Z")

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Thank you very much for clarification, managed to make it work.

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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:** [March 29, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-twitter-input-ubuntu-server/122142/4 "2018-03-29T20:22:06Z")

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