# Not able to find elasticsearch.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 19, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621 "2019-04-19T13:17:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pathri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pathri/32/54484_2.png) [@pathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pathri)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621/1 "2019-04-19T13:17:05Z")

</div>

how come i am running elasticsearch in my local virtual machine without elasticsearch.yml and kibana.yml??

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621/2 "2019-04-19T21:37:14Z")

</div>

Your question is impossible to answer without more details sorry.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pathri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pathri/32/54484_2.png) [@pathri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pathri)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621/3 "2019-04-20T02:55:55Z")

</div>

Hi wadklom,

Please let me know what details you need to help?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![staodd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/staodd/32/24509_2.png) [@staodd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/staodd)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621/4 "2019-04-20T03:06:48Z")

</div>

What OS are you running? How did you install? What version are you running? What does your logfiles say? How do you know there are no elasticsearch.yml file? How do you start it? If custom start script, what does it contain? Less is never more when it comes to information.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-find-elasticsearch-yml/177621/5 "2019-05-18T03:06:53Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.