# Starting elasticsearch with configfile parameter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 16, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293 "2017-02-16T07:54:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![raulk89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raulk89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raulk89)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293/1 "2017-02-16T07:54:54Z")

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Is there possibility to start elasticsearch with parameter configfile  
Basically, kibana for example can be started this way: "/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana '-c /etc/kibana/kibana.yml'"

I am using centos 7, elastic 5.2.1 and kibana also 5.2.1

(I know I can use "systemctl start elasticsearch", but when I am testing some configurations, then would like to get this output, instead of tail'ing log files..)

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293/2 "2017-02-17T08:46:46Z")

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Hi @raulk89,

you can use `./bin/elasticsearch -Epath.conf=/path/to/my/config/` (see [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.2/settings.html#_config_file_location) for more details).

Daniel

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**Author:** ![raulk89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raulk89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raulk89)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293/3 "2017-02-17T10:45:08Z")

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Thank you..

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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 17, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-with-configfile-parameter/75293/4 "2017-03-17T10:45:21Z")

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