# Shield config locations confusion
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [August 21, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835 "2015-08-21T14:34:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Babadofar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Babadofar)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835/1 "2015-08-21T14:34:33Z")
hi,
I had some issues with the Shield config locations, I created an issue at the elasticsearch-puppet repository, since the problem only applied when adding an extra subfolder between /etc/elasticsearch and the elasticsearch.yml
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### Author:  [@electrical](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/electrical)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835/2 "2015-08-21T15:10:25Z")
Hi,
I've just responded to the github issue you opened.
I'm hoping to have a solution for it soon.
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### Author:  [@Babadofar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Babadofar)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835/3 "2015-08-21T15:30:14Z")
Great! Thanks!
21. aug. 2015 5.20 p.m. skrev "Richard Pijnenburg" \<
noreply@discuss.elastic.co\>:
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-config-locations-confusion/27835/4 "2017-07-06T13:48:31Z")