# Problem getting logstash started

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 13, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854 "2017-02-13T09:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![agrawalsaurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@agrawalsaurabh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/agrawalsaurabh)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854/1 "2017-02-13T09:07:20Z")

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Hi,

I am a newbie and trying to use the stack of Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana working together to parse the apache log file and visualize it.  
I started with this URL - [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash) where in I downloaded logstash and unzipped it on windows.

As per the steps mentioned, I configured a config file name " logstash-simple.conf" and placed it in root directory of logstash. The file has the following content

input { stdin { } }  
output {  
elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] }  
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }  
}

Post that i executed the following command from bin directory-  
logstash -f logstash-simple.conf

However, it gives me an error saying:

An unexpected error occurred! :error =\> bad URI(is not URI?): file://D:/Software  
s/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/config/log4j2.properties, :backtrace =\> ["  
D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/uri/c  
ommon.rb:176:in `split'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vend or/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/uri/common.rb:210:in`parse'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitorin  
g Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/uri/common.rb:747:in `parse'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/uri/ common.rb:994:in`URI'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/logst  
ash-core/lib/logstash/logging/logger.rb:76:in `initialize'", "org/jruby/ext/thre ad/Mutex.java:149:in`synchronize'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash  
-5.2.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/logging/logger.rb:74:in `initialize'", "D:/Sof twares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb: 198:in`execute'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vendor/bund  
le/jruby/1.9/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "D:/Softwares/L og Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:183:in`  
run'", "D:/Softwares/Log Monitoring Stack/logstash-5.2.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9  
/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "D:\\Softwares\\Log Monito ring Stack\\logstash-5.2.0\\lib\\bootstrap\\environment.rb:71:in`(root)'"]

I am not sure how to get logstash working. Can someone suggest step by step how can I configure logstash?

Thanks in advance.  
Saurabh

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**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:** [February 13, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854/2 "2017-02-13T09:11:30Z")

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Try removing spaces in the path that LS us running under.

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**Author:** ![agrawalsaurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@agrawalsaurabh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/agrawalsaurabh)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854/3 "2017-02-13T11:40:16Z")

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> [@agrawalsaurabh](#):
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> logstash -f logstash-simple.conf

Thanks for your reply. I removed the spaces from the path wheer logstash is installed. After that executed the following command again and this time it worked.  
logstash -f logstash-simple.conf

However, I needed to place the config file in BIN folder so that it gets picked up.

Saurabh

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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 13, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-logstash-started/74854/4 "2017-03-13T11:40:43Z")

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